Hello,
My phone shuts down every now and then, when idle. when I'm trying to power it on I can feel that its back is hot near the camera and that the battery's charge is much lower.
this is the second rom I used. I've upgraded from 2.3.4, then 2.3.5 and a week ago to 4.0.4 (all stock, problem started in the last one).
The risk taking disease has taken over me and I picked the first rom in the newest versions thread here. So far I'm pretty satisfied with this version, except the fact that there is no status bar brightness changing and that the phone shuts down 1-3 times a day without me noticing.
Phone's firmware:
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Chen.
ChenBH said:
Hello,
My phone shuts down every now and then, when idle. when I'm trying to power it on I can feel that its back is hot near the camera and that the battery's charge is much lower.
this is the second rom I used. I've upgraded from 2.3.4, then 2.3.5 and a week ago to 4.0.4 (all stock, problem started in the last one).
The risk taking disease has taken over me and I picked the first rom in the newest versions thread here. So far I'm pretty satisfied with this version, except the fact that there is no status bar brightness changing and that the phone shuts down 1-3 times a day without me noticing.
Phone's firmware:
Sorry for my bad English and thanks in advance,
Chen.
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1. Status bar brightness has been removed in 4.0.4 by Samsung.
This app can perform the same function: https://play.google.com/store/apps/....widgets.brightnesslevel&feature=related_apps
2. Your soft reboots could be kernel related. Did you change any of the kernel settings?
3. Did you do full wipe after changing your ROM?
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
Jokesy said:
1. Status bar brightness has been removed in 4.0.4 by Samsung.
This app can perform the same function
2. Your soft reboots could be kernel related. Did you change any of the kernel settings?
3. Did you do full wipe after changing your ROM?
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
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the device doesn't reboot, it just shuts and than I need to hold the power button for a long time or get into download mode and select "reboot now"
1. Thanks, downloaded it and works fine.
2. Nope, just downloaded it to the device through Odin, didn't touch any of its properties.
3.No.
ChenBH said:
the device doesn't reboot, it just shuts and than I need to hold the power button for a long time or get into download mode and select "reboot now"
1. Thanks, downloaded it and works fine.
2. Nope, just downloaded it to the device through Odin, didn't touch any of its properties.
3.No.
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What you are experiencing its called sleep of death, and its kernel related.
Please do a factory reset since tout haven't done that after flashing the Rom
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
I experienced the same thing. I think jokesy was the one who helped me out? (Thanks man!)
Anywho, i got mine fixed by flashing another kernel. Also, you should wipe cache/dalvik cache
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Sorry for the late response, I wrote a reply but I don't see it was sent...weird.
I've changed kernel and it looks like it fixed the problem. but I still want to know more on the factory reset option.
will it erase the SD card? why does this thing happens? I'll have to do that after every rom switching?
what should I backup before the reset?
ChenBH said:
Sorry for the late response, I wrote a reply but I don't see it was sent...weird.
I've changed kernel and it looks like it fixed the problem. but I still want to know more on the factory reset option.
will it erase the SD card? why does this thing happens? I'll have to do that after every rom switching?
what should I backup before the reset?
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Answers:
1. factory reset will erase your data (messages, calls, contacts and application settings) and phone settings on the phone only, it will not wipe your Internal SD and External SD
2. it may erase your your internal SD only if you check the option in storage settings before resetting the phone. It will never erase your SD during if you do not manually enable it.
-If you do factory reset in Recovery, It will never wipe your SD
3. It is recommended to do factory reset before flashing a new rom. this ensures stability of the new rom
4. Well, in your phone,
-backup your contacts (sync with google contacts),
-backup your messages (download sms backup & restore in market)
-backup call logs (download call logs backup & restore in market)
-backup apps (use titanium backup)
-before flashing new ROM, backup your Old ROM
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Answers:
1. factory reset will erase your data (messages, calls, contacts and application settings) and phone settings on the phone only, it will not wipe your Internal SD and External SD
2. it may erase your your internal SD only if you check the option in storage settings before resetting the phone. It will never erase your SD during if you do not manually enable it.
-If you do factory reset in Recovery, It will never wipe your SD
3. It is recommended to do factory reset before flashing a new rom. this ensures stability of the new rom
4. Well, in your phone,
-backup your contacts (sync with google contacts),
-backup your messages (download sms backup & restore in market)
-backup call logs (download call logs backup & restore in market)
-backup apps (use titanium backup)
-before flashing new ROM, backup your Old ROM
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Will do.
Thanks man, really helped me.
Have a good day.
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Hello all,
I've rooted my GNote and tried to get rid of some useless apps, since updating to official ICS made it unbarebly slow and a lot laggy. I used Titanuim Backup to remove some apps and it reboots without deleting any, also it sucks even if it works cuz it needs to reboot everytime u wana remove an app!!!
Is there any alternatives I can try that don't require rebooting?
JIC: I will flash it with a custom debloated, deodexed ROM, but not right now as i need to do a few backups. but for the time being i need something to get by.
Thanks.
Something is not right there. When I used TiBu to uninstall system apps (debloat a factory rom) apps I had no problems ans didn't have to reboot svery time. Just did this again a couple days ago removing a few apps from fj's rom.
Check your settings in tibu and double check if unknown sources and usb debugging are on. Then recheck root, that is my suggestions.
No point in worrying. Flashing any one of our devs roms will give you a better experience than the OTA. Download rom manager and use it to install cwm. Place the rom on the SD card and reboot into recovery. First create a backup then wipe system, cache and dalvik three times and flash the zip. Depending on the rom you may need to flash gapps after system install. Done. No bloat plus lots of optimizations and goodies.
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I have seen a lot of complaints of lagginess from people who updated OTA.
I updated via Odin with an ICS image from samfirmware and never had a problem.
Debloating after that made a bit of a difference too but not the kind of difference you'd see with flashing an AOSP variant.
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jonrobertd said:
Something is not right there. When I used TiBu to uninstall system apps (debloat a factory rom) apps I had no problems ans didn't have to reboot svery time. Just did this again a couple days ago removing a few apps from fj's rom.
Check your settings in tibu and double check if unknown sources and usb debugging are on. Then recheck root, that is my suggestions.
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thanks for the reply;
I have enabled "Unknown Source" and "USB Debugging" yet no luck as you can see in the screenshot.
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No point in worrying. Flashing any one of our devs roms will give you a better experience than the OTA. Download rom manager and use it to install cwm. Place the rom on the SD card and reboot into recovery. First create a backup then wipe system, cache and dalvik three times and flash the zip. Depending on the rom you may need to flash gapps after system install. Done. No bloat plus lots of optimizations and goodies.
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I am interested in the "BLACK★STAR V UCLF6" ROM, seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. However, I downloaded the zip file so i can flash it later but I think the link is wrong, cuz the "custom rom creature" keeps indicating that the ROM has an invalid format!!
If you got a link to download the BLACK★STAR V UCLF6, please paste it on here. Thanks
kinghorsey said:
I have seen a lot of complaints of lagginess from people who updated OTA.
I updated via Odin with an ICS image from samfirmware and never had a problem.
Debloating after that made a bit of a difference too but not the kind of difference you'd see with flashing an AOSP variant.
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Oh man, you have no idea how bad it is, plus the random freezes.
What is custom rom creator?
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Sounds like a bad OTA.....
Yeh ...fire up a custom rom and never look back.
And of course .we are always willing to help if needed ..
I'll find you the blackstar link ...stand by ....g
http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22543316599963654
This link is working ..
Use pc if possible to download , then place it to the sd card ......IMHO
good luck and enjoy ...g
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What is custom rom creator?
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A tool that you can use to create/customize Android ROMs.
gregsarg said:
Sounds like a bad OTA.....
Yeh ...fire up a custom rom and never look back.
And of course .we are always willing to help if needed ..
I'll find you the blackstar link ...stand by ....g
http://beta.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22543316599963654
This link is working ..
Use pc if possible to download , then place it to the sd card ......IMHO
good luck and enjoy ...g
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Thank you sir.
I have CWM flashed already so what are the next steps? (this is my first time flashing a custom ROM)
btw, by "pc" do you mean a desktop computer or "windows OS"? (there is a lot confusion going on out there.)
and no I don't use my GNote to download anything other than apps from "Google Play".
I did a wipe before installing the update through Kies, and I'm pretty happy with the stock rom. I think Samsung needs to find a way to add a full backup and restore to Kies and just perform a wipe as it upgrades. Shouldn't be too hard, Titanium already does it (mostly).
I had this problem too.
Don't long press the app to uninstall it. Just click it and the window to backup or uninstall will pop up.
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Don't long press the app to uninstall it. Just click it and the window to backup or uninstall will pop up.
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Took me a few tries to get that working, between lags and freezes!! this official ICS is garbage.
thanks for the tip (I just punched your [thank you] button :good.
Out of an unknown reason after I rebooted by Galaxy S II, it just did a factory reset on its own.
So my S2 was bugging about something about the calendar storage crashing and the dialogue box won't stop popping up again and again no matter how many times I press OK. It won't let me do a proper reset as the dialogue box is in the way so I took out the battery and put it back in.
So it was booting as normal (Samsung Galaxy bootscreen, then the Siyah boot animation*, then finally the oval Samsung animation). But instead of my usual lockscreen, it greeted me with a setup screen as if I did a factory reset, even if I didn't do any special commands or gestures or button combos. So after going through the setup, as well as the tutorials, the factory default everything is now set.
But it gets weird. Real weird.
So all of the apps I downloaded are gone (except for the root apps when I did a root on my device*, which is no surprise as these are now embedded in the firmware or something). BUT my files (including the ones NOT on the SD card) are still there, as well as other personal files. Yes, personal files are still in there but the apps and settings are gone. Shouldn't those be wiped out after a factory reset?
So what's not wiped out are my personal files (pictures, videos, docs, etc.), my Contacts--which are saved on the SIM card, and the root apps*.
Ok, now for the technical information
Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 (Int'l Unlocked) 16 GB
2 GB Transcend microSD
Stock Battery (1650 mAh)
OEM Android Firmware (4.1.2 JB w/ Touchwix UX) even after the factory reset
*ROOT information
Siyah Kernel S2-v6.0beta5
flashed with Odin 3.07
CWM v3.15
This is the guide I used to root my device. I followed it carefully bit by bit.
YouTube Title: " How to Root Samsung Galaxy S2 (i9100) Jelly Bean 4.1.2 with Siyah Kernel "
I simply need an answer how this happen, as well as any knowledgeable set of information. I have scoured the web and I have no concrete answer and I hope the experienced people here can give an answer. This is just so unusual and it never happen to me before.
Also I should also point out I am a noob and this is my first time posting . I have already watched the "You are a noob on xda-developers" video and read the written guide and I hope I followed everything. If I have any mistakes, please inform me I would gladly appreciate it!
Same happened to me few times on stock jb.Didn't found any logical reasons for this.Everything at stock.
Ok... A few things :
1. I'm sorry for your loss of all the apps. I don't know why that happened, although I have seen it happen before. Take the chance to install only the apps you need, and you should find an improvement with battery life and speed.
2. It's normal that all of your photos, videos etc didn't get deleted. A factory reset will reset all the apps and settings, but all data on the internal or external sd card will be intact. The i9100 has an internal sd card partition built in (11.5GB for the 16GB model) whatever is on that won't disappear in a factory reset
Thanks for reading the rules and posting with logical information, it's nice to read for a change
Edit: sorry for not quoting you.. Instead, @MixEcoSystem now you'll get a notification :good:
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Thank You very much But now I have a new problem
Hopper8 said:
Ok... A few things :
1. I'm sorry for your loss of all the apps. I don't know why that happened, although I have seen it happen before. Take the chance to install only the apps you need, and you should find an improvement with battery life and speed.
2. It's normal that all of your photos, videos etc didn't get deleted. A factory reset will reset all the apps and settings, but all data on the internal or external sd card will be intact. The i9100 has an internal sd card partition built in (11.5GB for the 16GB model) whatever is on that won't disappear in a factory reset
Thanks for reading the rules and posting with logical information, it's nice to read for a change
Edit: sorry for not quoting you.. Instead, @MixEcoSystem now you'll get a notification :good:
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
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Now I havr most of my needed applicatoons are now installed, a notification occured. It is alerting me that I only have 200 MB free space of the 2 GB capacity of the system partition. Of coarse I just had a factory reset which should have cleared it in the first place. Before the unknown factory reset, I still had ~700 MB free space. Now I didn't even reinstall everything and it is already warning me. This is just weird.
Is there a way to check this system partition?
UPDATE: Now I can't install other new and large applications like evernote. Error 919 even if it downloaded 100%. Now I'm frustrated I have to go back to the restricted iOS of iPod touch 5th gen until we can fix this
MixEcoSystem said:
Now I havr most of my needed applicatoons are now installed, a notification occured. It is alerting me that I only have 200 MB free space of the 2 GB capacity of the system partition. Of coarse I just had a factory reset which should have cleared it in the first place. Before the unknown factory reset, I still had ~700 MB free space. Now I didn't even reinstall everything and it is already warning me. This is just weird.
Is there a way to check this system partition?
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Yes, it's possible to see what's in there, use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelokment.storageanalyser and go preferences - options - and tick both boxes there.
To be honest, it sounds like it's time for a system clean. If you've already flashed siyah kernel, you'll be fine to do it. I actually did it myself yesterday :good: here's a screenshot of my storage after I cleaned it yesterday. I had so much rubbish floating around yesterday. Much better now
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In my signature is a link, in that link is a download link to a 3 part firmware. If you flash that via Odin, it will wipe your system partition and then you'll be good to go.
Once that's wiped, then I would re-root (siyah kernel is as good as any to do that), then flash a custom ROM based on a stock ROM, say NeatROM, as long as you want something similar to what you're already on. To flash that ROM, flash the zip file from siyah kernel recovery. NeatROM is a bit lighter than a full stock ROM with some bloat removed, but has a lot more customisation options
Hope that helps
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data/lost+found consuming 1.32 GB (75%) is well...found
Hopper8 said:
Yes, it's possible to see what's in there, use this app: and go preferences - options - and tick both boxes there.
To be honest, it sounds like it's time for a system clean. If you've already flashed siyah kernel, you'll be fine to do it. I actually did it myself yesterday :good: here's a screenshot of my storage after I cleaned it yesterday. I had so much rubbish floating around yesterday. Much better now
In my signature is a link, in that link is a download link to a 3 part firmware. If you flash that via Odin, it will wipe your system partition and then you'll be good to go.
Once that's wiped, then I would re-root (siyah kernel is as good as any to do that), then flash a custom ROM based on a stock ROM, say NeatROM, as long as you want something similar to what you're already on. To flash that ROM, flash the zip file from siyah kernel recovery. NeatROM is a bit lighter than a full stock ROM with some bloat removed, but has a lot more customisation options
Hope that helps
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
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After using storage analyzer and enabling it to access root, " lost+found " folder inside /data is using 75% of the system partition with the 2nd consumer to be dalvil-cache at only 160 MB. I think this is where all my apps went because of its name. Is this a recoverable thing and I could restore everything like before the reset occurred OR is it just "dump" that can only be safely erased?
Also thanks for the ROM recommendation :good: , but I think I'll stick with TouchWiz since I am kind of a fan of it despite its high memory use I might go for a KitKat build in the future
Note: I had to remove the links cause I haven't reached the 10 post requirement
Neat ROM is touchwiz, its a stock custom rom, its touchwiz minus high memory use, the only way to use stock rom imo.
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After using storage analyzer and enabling it to access root, " lost+found " folder inside /data is using 75% of the system partition with the 2nd consumer to be dalvil-cache at only 160 MB. I think this is where all my apps went because of its name. Is this a recoverable thing and I could restore everything like before the reset occurred OR is it just "dump" that can only be safely erased?
Also thanks for the ROM recommendation :good: , but I think I'll stick with TouchWiz since I am kind of a fan of it despite its high memory use I might go for a KitKat build in the future
Note: I had to remove the links cause I haven't reached the 10 post requirement
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Hmm. I've never seen that folder before... I really doubt you need it! But maybe try a quick google search before you delete it? If it was me... It would be gone already but then again, I have stuffed a few things up before. Best to be sure what you're doing before, not after you do it
And, as the guy above me said, NeatROM is touchwiz... Just without all the rubbish apps and a lot more customisation. Think of it as stock touchwiz on steroids but yes, I'm on kitkat now. I personally don't like touchwiz. Don't ask for ROM recommendations though, it's against forum rules. I merely suggested NeatROM as a way to get some extra space for your system partition :good:
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I have had it I have deleted all my photos AGAIN!!! I can't seem to see why KitKat made the Ext-SD Read Only : (ie photos in the internal memory) : WHY can't we access the internal memory from any of the recoveries and with all the other problems associated with the LB that we are all familiar with this is a really bad phone to root.
How did this happen ?
I downloaded a new ROM, made sure my phone had them both the ROM and the Dual Recovery flashable file on the SD and rebooted to TWRP. I then wiped out my everything but external and internal SD. After doing this I went to flash the ROM but couldn't find it (I know it was there but buried in one of the million sub directories.) Next I was interrupted at the door by my boss, we got to talking and I realized that my screen was off. When I returned the phone was in fact dead. #$#@ I screamed out loud because I knew what this meant. Despite my knowledge of how this operates I knew from experience loosing all my wedding photos that this wasn't going to go over well (read my previous thread of lost wedding photos).
Why even recommend rooting to anyone with a locked boot loader after all this is a phone people buy to use the camera. The photos are forced by default to internal memory and internal memory is extremely volatile on this phone
HAS ANYONE OUT THERE been able to get the data back I simply have no system/recovery partition now ?! Surely SOMEONE out there knows of a way to .ftf a system partition only so I can access my internal memory as the data partition is still fully intact..
If not I wont be surprised as this LB phone (camera) is a total disaster for me and I am regretting getting it in the first place... It's a real mess with these glitches ..
futiless said:
I have had it I have deleted all my photos AGAIN!!! I can't seem to see why KitKat made the Ext-SD Read Only : (ie photos in the internal memory) : WHY can't we access the internal memory from any of the recoveries and with all the other problems associated with the LB that we are all familiar with this is a really bad phone to root.
How did this happen ?
I downloaded a new ROM, made sure my phone had them both the ROM and the Dual Recovery flashable file on the SD and rebooted to TWRP. I then wiped out my everything but external and internal SD. After doing this I went to flash the ROM but couldn't find it (I know it was there but buried in one of the million sub directories.) Next I was interrupted at the door by my boss, we got to talking and I realized that my screen was off. When I returned the phone was in fact dead. #$#@ I screamed out loud because I knew what this meant. Despite my knowledge of how this operates I knew from experience loosing all my wedding photos that this wasn't going to go over well (read my previous thread of lost wedding photos).
Why even recommend rooting to anyone with a locked boot loader after all this is a phone people buy to use the camera. The photos are forced by default to internal memory and internal memory is extremely volatile on this phone
HAS ANYONE OUT THERE been able to get the data back I simply have no system/recovery partition now ?! Surely SOMEONE out there knows of a way to .ftf a system partition only so I can access my internal memory as the data partition is still fully intact..
If not I wont be surprised as this LB phone (camera) is a total disaster for me and I am regretting getting it in the first place... It's a real mess with these glitches ..
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If you got proper root you're always able to backup. It's just your fault you lost your data.
If it's just system that's gone you haven't lost any actual data yet, get the ftf for the firmware you were using, flash it in flashtool with everything but system /kernel checked. That way it doesn't wipe data etc. I'm not at my computer so can't be exact but you get the picture just restoring system via flashtool should do the trick
Also if you use xposed there's a module to enable handling of external storage, that and setting pics to save to external memory card should avoid you ever having this issue again. There's also an app called folder mount that can be used to ghost internal directories to the external card too hth
Oh also, I may be wrong but if you were using philz if you let the screen go dark while your running something it stays dark till it's finished then a quick press of the power button wakes it back up, you should of waited a little longer if that was the issue
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If it's just system that's gone you haven't lost any actual data yet, get the ftf for the firmware you were using, flash it in flashtool with everything but system /kernel checked. That way it doesn't wipe data etc. I'm not at my computer so can't be exact but you get the picture just restoring system via flashtool should do the trick
Also if you use xposed there's a module to enable handling of external storage, that and setting pics to save to external memory card should avoid you ever having this issue again. There's also an app called folder mount that can be used to ghost internal directories to the external card too hth
Oh also, I may be wrong but if you were using philz if you let the screen go dark while your running something it stays dark till it's finished then a quick press of the power button wakes it back up, you should of waited a little longer if that was the issue
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Your a GENIUS this totally saved me thank you so much sir : THIS WORKED... it was something I considered but found daunting because I have a 6906, the 6903 FTF worked for anyone reading this !!!! Maybe I can fix my attitude on this one thanks again...
futiless said:
Your a GENIUS this totally saved me thank you so much sir : THIS WORKED... it was something I considered but found daunting because I have a 6906, the 6903 FTF worked for anyone reading this !!!! Maybe I can fix my attitude on this one thanks again...
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Can I suggest you edit title to include [SOLVED] - might help other folks out
No worries pal, glad you got it sorted I'd be just the same if I thought I'd lost data that was important to me
Plus, why the hell are you not using google+ to backup your photos ?
Personally I use My PhoneExplorer to back my phone up and synchronise with my pc. It wil also back up all your photos to a folder in the My Pictures directory, sync your calendar and even make basic data backups. Been using it for years now, ever since I had a Sony Ericsson K700 phone
This is just a suggestion if you are also a bit paranoid in storing all your stuff on google.
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
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But you know that even without any rooting there is an option inside the camera app where to store pictures? You can choose ext. SD Card there. In my opinion it's not hard to find and due to your last disaster it's your fault not checking this. Since there are options to keep pictures on SD Card in fact you shouldn't blame the phone nor Sony.
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Plus, why the hell are you not using google+ to backup your photos ?
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Privacy reasons, not wanting a third party to be responsible for your data etc etc
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Would like to do this but don't know how exactly ...
futiless said:
Would like to do this but don't know how exactly ...
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see the title box Below Reason for editing... change that one
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Plus, why the hell are you not using google+ to backup your photos ?
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Kind of short sighted and pretentious to think we would all see things exactly the same. Personally Google isn't the "answer" to all my problems. Secondly I have had numerous smart phones as most of us have and this Xperia although I love it I have to dance around the volatile situation it poses to have 4.4 limitations which requires root to be able to in order to write to SD (?!). Kinda weird if you ask me and this is just one more thing to setup and calibrate so between roms it is easily overlooked. As I don't actually use social networking all that much and I have such large photos among many other things. I am thinking of other ways to automate this in the future. I am looking for a more set it and forget it method and if I could persist this between roms so be it.
I would like to know who keeps everything they own online aswell today... I mean why do companies use a VPN for data archive ... when they can just sync EVERYTHING to the cloud ?
I ponder politics
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You should not flash ROMs in locked BL even if you have a recovery and root that doesn't mean it will flash a ROM.
Hi guys.
Today I turn on my galaxy s3 and it displays a motionless lockscreen (I can't turn the screen off, nor do anything with the touchscreen). It has already happened twice or three times.
I reboot it holding the power button for some time, and it bootloops.
ROM: Omnirom 4.4 (I've had it for 2/3 weeks, worked well)
KERNEL: Boeffla Kernel
RECOVERY: Philz 6.0.4.8 (I also have Aroma file manager)
It has happened some times already since I installed this ROM and I had fixed it flashing the xposed-disable zip, but this time it didn't work.
I think if I do a factory reset and reinstall the ROM everything will work, but I really can't lose all the stuff I have there (e.g. notes, contacts, SMSs, whatsapp chats...).
I cleared cache, dalvik, pulled out the battery, updated to the latest nightly via recovery; nothing worked.
Tried to unroot via Aroma FM, didn't manage to.
/dev/log is empty for Aroma FM, if I "ls" with the console it shows there are the regular folders, but I can't "cd" them for logs.
I attach the last logcat got from the Aroma FM console.
Is there any way I can get my phone back to work? Or can I save all my data?
Fanaticism said:
Hi guys.
Today I turn on my galaxy s3 and it displays a motionless lockscreen (I can't turn the screen
off, nor do anything with the touchscreen). It has already happened twice or three times.
I reboot it holding the power button for some time, and it bootloops.
ROM: Omnirom 4.4 (I've had it for 2/3 weeks, worked well)
KERNEL: Boeffla Kernel
RECOVERY: Philz 6.0.4.8 (I also have Aroma file manager)
It has happened some times already since I installed this ROM and I had fixed it flashing
the xposed-disable zip, but this time it didn't work.
I think if I do a factory reset and reinstall the ROM everything will work, but I really can't
lose all the stuff I have there (e.g. notes, contacts, SMSs, whatsapp chats...).
I cleared cache, dalvik, pulled out the battery, updated to the latest nightly via recovery; nothing worked.
Tried to unroot via Aroma FM, didn't manage to.
/dev/log is empty for Aroma FM, if I "ls" with the console it shows there are the regular folders, but I can't "cd"
them for logs.
I attach the last logcat got from the Aroma FM console.
Is there any way I can get my phone back to work? Or can I save all my data?
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I don't know about the bootloop issue, I would just do a clean install and start again, but if your recovery is working, mount internal sd card as usb storage and copy what you want to keep to your computer.
You don't need to wipe data partition were your stuff is located. Just format system and flash the same rom again via recovery. This will wipe any init.d scripts and uncommon apps or frameworks which causing bootloop.
Only ROM, do not install Boeffla kernel.
If this will not help than make backup of data partition via CWM and copy this file by adb to PC where you will be able to extract needed data.
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Thanks for your replies!
I've already flashed the latest omnirom zip, which formatted /system in order to be installed (didn't it?).
What do you mean by "uncommon apps or frameworks"? What will I actually lose if I format /system?
However I'm making a backup of /data anyway.
System partition store only main system files, system settings and frameworks ie xposed framework, busybox binaries. All normal apps and their settings and data are stored on data partition ie SMS, emails etc.
Formatting system is good practice before flashing different android versions but also helps to get rid of all unnecessary scripts and garbage from old ROM.
You will not loose anything important from your private data.
And you are right, usually installer script formats system partition before copying new files but sometimes strange things happens it will not harm but may help.
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SirKunon said:
System partition store only main system files, system settings and frameworks ie xposed framework, busybox binaries. All normal apps and their settings and data are stored on data partition ie SMS, emails etc.
Formatting system is good practice before flashing different android versions but also helps to get rid of all unnecessary scripts and garbage from old ROM.
You will not loose anything important from your private data.
And you are right, usually installer script formats system partition before copying new files but sometimes strange things happens it will not harm but may help.
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I've formatted /system and installed the latest Omnirom zip (before getting the bootloop I had an earlier version). I've turned on the device and it shows a dialog:
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Like if I've wiped dalvik cache. It says "Android upgrade" "Launching apps".
EDIT:
Rebooted. Now it bootloops "as usual".
Maybe I need to wipe /boot? I don't know what to do. :S
Try different rom, cyanogenmod maybe?
Or try to launch the system in safe mode by hitting left capacity button (menu) after powering on the phone, but I don't know it works on custom roms.
Finally if you have your backup you can factory reset your phone to check it will start clean or it is a hardware failure. You can restore your backup later.
Do not format boot partition.
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SirKunon said:
Try different rom, cyanogenmod maybe?
Or try to launch the system in safe mode by hitting left capacity button (menu) after powering on the phone, but I don't know it works on custom roms.
Finally if you have your backup you can factory reset your phone to check it will start clean or it is a hardware failure. You can restore your backup later.
Do not format boot partition.
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Thanks mate. I will try that today, and let you know this afternoon.
I've deleted some of the last modified folders and files in /data (apps-asec, system, .sto...), formatted /system, installed the latest omnirom, and this time it boots normally; altough it is impossible to use the phone, as "Google play services has force stopped" dialogs continuously appear.
Anyway, it looks like the whole /data folder has been wiped (maybe when the system recognizes something is missing from there, it wipes the whole thing), as apps don't have their data any more; altough some configurations have been kept (wifi passwords for example), and of course my apps have been kept as well (in fact I only deleted some folders from /data). It looks like the problem lies in /data.
Is all the data I'd like to preserve in "/data/data"? In that case I could try to restore only /data/data and see if the phone boots.
However the "force stop" dialogs problem is annoying.
Thanks for your help mate!
Don't wipe manually. Asec, you have removed , is virtual data folder.
Just make sure to have full backup of system. Choose backup, advanced, and select all partitions in CWM. When it's done connect to PC and copy backup in safe place.
Enter recovery once again and select wipe data factory settings. Wipe also cache, system and dalvik from advanced wipes menu.
Flash ROM and Gapps.
Flash SuperSU zip package if you like.
Reboot system and wait until first long boot finishes.
Config your Gmail account and wait for app restoration protocol.
If everything works fine reboot phone once more and load system. Check is it OK.
If so reboot into recovery and backup this clean system with all partitions, even efs.
Repeat copying this backup to PC procedure.
Now you can try to restore only data partition from first backup via recovery mode.
Choose restore, advanced and select only data partition.
Wait for restore and reboot.
Check if it's working, or not. If you got bootloops again then something is wrong with that data partition. Can't say what it may be.
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SirKunon said:
Don't wipe manually. Asec, you have removed , is virtual data folder.
Just make sure to have full backup of system. Choose backup, advanced, and select all partitions in CWM. When it's done connect to PC and copy backup in safe place.
Enter recovery once again and select wipe data factory settings. Wipe also cache, system and dalvik from advanced wipes menu.
Flash ROM and Gapps.
Flash SuperSU zip package if you like.
Reboot system and wait until first long boot finishes.
Config your Gmail account and wait for app restoration protocol.
If everything works fine reboot phone once more and load system. Check is it OK.
If so reboot into recovery and backup this clean system with all partitions, even efs.
Repeat copying this backup to PC procedure.
Now you can try to restore only data partition from first backup via recovery mode.
Choose restore, advanced and select only data partition.
Wait for restore and reboot.
Check if it's working, or not. If you got bootloops again then something is wrong with that data partition. Can't say what it may be.
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It bootloops, so the problem lies in /data. If I manually copy in /data "apps", "apps-lib" and "data", the new rom does not see them. I will restore apps and data with some nandroid extractor.
Thanks for you help.
Last thing: I'm now trying to restore apps+data with this app, but it kepps saying "unable to create applist". How can I restore them? Is there any better app for this purpose?
Hi. I'm currently running Android 8.0.0, build 34.4.A.0.364 with the following modifications:
I'm using a US carrier (Ting), but I have the EE UK ROM flashed through flashtool in order to get the fingerprint sensor working.
I'm running a rooted kernel provided by YasuHamed
I have Magisk installed
I flashed TWRP to recovery
My phone works great as-is, but OTA updates fail. They get announced, but if I try to install it downloads successfully, appears to start installing successfully, but eventually just stops, then advertises that the update is available for download again.
So here's my question - how should I upgrade my phone? I know that the most thorough method is to use flashtool to wipe and then reflash the latest version, but re-installing and re-configuring everything, even with backups, is too time-consuming for that to be a regular process.
What are my options for upgrading without wiping my data and/or internal storage? Is there a way to obtain the OTA update files for standalone installation? Is there a way to flash the latest release through flasthtool without losing all of my data? Maybe I can "unroot" my phone, then install the OTA update? Any other options?
I'm obviously not only person to have this problem. How are others dealing with it, and what (generally) works best?
Thanks!
sirs
1.once the BOOT is UNLOCKED , OTA will always fail
2. the only way to update your xperias are now via flashtool
3. if you flash with below configuration, everthing will be wiped , under WIPE area if you don't TICK these boxes, flashtool will not reset your phone. it will just replace your necessary sin files with new ones. , however such flashing always results in higher batter drain (personal experience)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
4. if you have your TA.img, after rooting, lock you bootloader again and you will start reciving OTA. but after any major OTA, kernel will be updated and you will have to unlock your bootloader again to gain root access. , EveryTime when you relock and lock you bootloader device wipes everything. (so basically its a same thing whats happening to you now)
Thanks! I tried re-locking my bootloader in the past, but as you pointed out you lose root when doing that, which defeats the whole point of unlocking in the first place. So, that's not really an option.
I'll try using flashtool with the options you mentioned unchecked. Would it perhaps make sense to still wipe everything except userdata (and also disable the reset options under Misc TA)? or would that not buy much in terms of reliability?
nitro32 said:
Thanks! I tried re-locking my bootloader in the past, but as you pointed out you lose root when doing that, which defeats the whole point of unlocking in the first place. So, that's not really an option.
I'll try using flashtool with the options you mentioned unchecked. Would it perhaps make sense to still wipe everything except userdata (and also disable the reset options under Misc TA)? or would that not buy much in terms of reliability?
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under WIPE section
I always tick either ALL boxes , or NONE, because once i tried skipping one of the ticks under wipe and sony kept asking me password. sony stockrom itself locked out of the internal storage. I guess its Master Reset , or rese without reasons are the key triggers of wiping encrytion key also.
you may experiment combination of these ticks, keeping in mind that you may have to reflash, reset your deice from zero, hence take backups (always) (even if you are 100% sure of what you are doing, still take backup)
YasuHamed said:
under WIPE section
I always tick either ALL boxes , or NONE, because once i tried skipping one of the ticks under wipe and sony kept asking me password. sony stockrom itself locked out of the internal storage. I guess its Master Reset , or rese without reasons are the key triggers of wiping encrytion key also.
you may experiment combination of these ticks, keeping in mind that you may have to reflash, reset your deice from zero, hence take backups (always) (even if you are 100% sure of what you are doing, still take backup)
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For Xperias, what's the best method to backup ALL app data (Play Store and unknown source apps) and all the other things not explicitly listed?
Xperia's own Backup tool? (the PC Companion backup vs on-device?)
Titanium?
No cloud for me btw... I'm also talking about app data like the data downloaded by games after their installation, because which games these days don't download additional data, and no, not just the download that may even happen via Play Store, but only as soon as you launch the app. (guess it's the dev's own server, however the app has been taken down ever since, so without a backup it will only keep looking for data that it can't fetch... tried with Titanium to transfer from an older Android device to my Xperia X)
Boy, really missing the beauty of a no-BS all-encompassing backup solution like on iOS, even though I fully expect that to be on very shaky legs as well...
And what about those three boxes under the wipe section? For example, what does MASTER-RESET do?
Sorry for the many questions.
Glassed Silver said:
For Xperias, what's the best method to backup ALL app data (Play Store and unknown source apps) and all the other things not explicitly listed?
Xperia's own Backup tool? (the PC Companion backup vs on-device?)
Titanium?
No cloud for me btw... I'm also talking about app data like the data downloaded by games after their installation, because which games these days don't download additional data, and no, not just the download that may even happen via Play Store, but only as soon as you launch the app. (guess it's the dev's own server, however the app has been taken down ever since, so without a backup it will only keep looking for data that it can't fetch... tried with Titanium to transfer from an older Android device to my Xperia X)
Boy, really missing the beauty of a no-BS all-encompassing backup solution like on iOS, even though I fully expect that to be on very shaky legs as well...
And what about those three boxes under the wipe section? For example, what does MASTER-RESET do?
Sorry for the many questions.
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1. I am not a GAMER but I believe for the games, A service called Google play Games saves Everything about your games saved. so even if you have different mobile, same google account you will start your game from same point which was left out on device 1 .
2. I have never tried iOS so I cannot comment on that but I would definitely add (from what i have seen on youtube videos and read online) that iOS has basic notion in mind which is let us make our users tension free and we will do EVERYTHING for them. now this notion for me means, someone taking my freedom away and controling my decicions, (irrespective of what noble cause behind) where ANDROID basically GIVE MORE CONTROL to me so when it does, it also expect me to know what this freedom means?. I will have to be detailed oriented and I must cover all bases manually. Backups, Rooting, Flashing on my terms, Flashing different roms with different launders, Cloud base options, gaining control over android paritions to alter core structure of device.etc. Android offers more for sure!
3. Master Reset will wipe your login credentials , apps, and encryption keys, hence when device boot, you will have to setup everything again
YasuHamed said:
1. I am not a GAMER but I believe for the games, A service called Google play Games saves Everything about your games saved. so even if you have different mobile, same google account you will start your game from same point which was left out on device 1 .
2. I have never tried iOS so I cannot comment on that but I would definitely add (from what i have seen on youtube videos and read online) that iOS has basic notion in mind which is let us make our users tension free and we will do EVERYTHING for them. now this notion for me means, someone taking my freedom away and controling my decicions, (irrespective of what noble cause behind) where ANDROID basically GIVE MORE CONTROL to me so when it does, it also expect me to know what this freedom means?. I will have to be detailed oriented and I must cover all bases manually. Backups, Rooting, Flashing on my terms, Flashing different roms with different launders, Cloud base options, gaining control over android paritions to alter core structure of device.etc. Android offers more for sure!
3. Master Reset will wipe your login credentials , apps, and encryption keys, hence when device boot, you will have to setup everything again
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With all due respect, but I think I failed to express myself properly to get it all across:
1) As I said, I'm not talking about cloud-solutions, I'm not talking about game progress, not all games are part of Google Play Games and other kinds of apps like to download data from third-party servers as well.
2 Why do you think I'm using both by now? because I want that control, but I also like simplicity to whatever extend I can get it. I don't want a forced way of Android telling me to use XYZ, I want a way I can choose and that way needs to fulfill certain criteria, such as a complete no BS backup solution that is incremental.
Just because I want control doesn't mean I'm stoked about DIYing everything, otherwise I might as well hire an intern and direct by orders. :laugh:
So all I can do is refer back to my questions. Hell forget I ever mentioned iOS. I'm too chatty anyways which often distracts from the actual point. Sorry for that.
3) Wow, well good that I asked it seems! So I leave ALL boxes unchecked, right? Both wipes and all resets? I surely don't want to retype a million passwords again for all the stuff where LastPass doesn't have my credentials stored (yet).
Thanks a lot for your time, really appreciated.
Hi. My understanding is that the most thorough way to backup an android phone is to do a nandroid backup. If you search google you'll find plenty of info about that. If you have TWRP flashed to your recovery partition, you can fairly easily kick off a nandroid backup directly from within TWRP, though TWRP seems to add some proprietary extensions that make recovery only possibly with TWRP.
That'll give you your all-encompassing backup.
The problem with nandroid is that it's, well, all-encompassing. If you restore, you revert back to that original state. You can't use it to backup your data before an upgrade, for example, then restore under the new version. I haven't found a great solution for that yet, but my current solution is oandbackup. This backs up APKs and data for all user (and system, if desired) applications. This can then be copied to an external SD card or to another computer or whatever, then used to restore your apps and data after wipe/reset or upgrade. I setup a couple scheduled jobs to backup all user data and newly installed apks nightly, then have a job in a separate sync program to copy that to my NAS. No cloud necessary.
The main caveat here is that, because oandbackup is app-centric, it does not include system preferences, accounts, SMS messages, etc. All of that will need to be manually reconfigured or backed up with another app. Recovery, therefore, still takes some time (hence my request about upgrading without requiring a full wipe), but all of your important data should be preserved with this method.
Definitely not recommending this as the best approach, but it works well enough for me and avoids any dependency on online services.. Interested in any other approaches people may wish to share.