I installed the Smooth Bean JB 4.1 rom yesterday. It really is a awesome piece of work, but I have two issues.
1. Slowness. I changed the minimum speed to around 400 rom 200 but it still transition from screen to screen slowy at times.
2. Black screen. After getting everything just rightl I noticed the screen will go black occatiionally. I can press the power button to blank the screen, and come back and it's normal again.
I follows the Developers instrutions to NVflash first, clean all settings, factory reset and load. Everythings looks normal but for the top issues.
This is not every second issue. I can still use the G-Tablet and it does work perfectly but then it goes black or slows down.
Why not ask on the dev's thread for this ROM? Nobe is very helpful and supportive, and you'll get a faster response there.
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schwinn8 said:
Why not ask on the dev's thread for this ROM? Nobe is very helpful and supportive, and you'll get a faster response there.
I haven't replied to enough post to be able to post on the DEV thread. I get a error when I try telling me this.
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Ok. I didn't realize the board prevents posting there based on post counts. So be it.
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You can always wipe data/reset only, and reflash the ROM. It sounds like a hardware issue, but I assume you were not having these problems before. i cannot think of a fix for this, I have not seen anyone else have problems with a blackout screen.
The temporary slowdowns are due to 100% cpu usage, which happens to all of us. I would suggest holo launcher, or apex, because they use less RAM and less CPU, and they are better than stock, and FREE!!!!! There are many launchers better than stock and use less CPU.
Another thing you can do is get system tuner, and delete system apps you dont use, like calender, or smspush, stock Email. This can create issues though if you delete the wrong stuff.
afitzroy said:
I installed the Smooth Bean JB 4.1 rom yesterday. It really is a awesome piece of work, but I have two issues.
1. Slowness. I changed the minimum speed to around 400 rom 200 but it still transition from screen to screen slowy at times.
2. Black screen. After getting everything just rightl I noticed the screen will go black occatiionally. I can press the power button to blank the screen, and come back and it's normal again.
I follows the Developers instrutions to NVflash first, clean all settings, factory reset and load. Everythings looks normal but for the top issues.
This is not every second issue. I can still use the G-Tablet and it does work perfectly but then it goes black or slows down.
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Which update are you using? The most current one that you have to apply the update is going to run mainly off of the GPU instead of the CPU. I changed it that way so that the strain on the processor wouldn't be to over whelmed. Since currently we are still working with the 2.6.39 which has a lot off small issues when the CPU gets overloaded, for most SOD, that why I choose that config. There also might be some remidence of previous ROM builds within the nand or like everyone else blames on is Bad Blocks. I am currently working on a neat format tool that should help or devices handle those, but since we switch from 200m, to 250m, and also 300m systems it is going to take awhile to build it up. The best word of advise is to get a copy of the one time NVflash Format tool from here Click and run it a couple of times before NVflashing the 250m modded one.
I updated using Smooth Bean 1.3.2 with the re-mixed update file. Since I was having problems getting my tablet to power to 100%, and the black screens I performed the "format" that was listed above. Now my tablet won't boot at all. I think i'll let it power completely off, and if I can get it running i'll clear out all data and start from scratch.
Thanks everyone for your advice and hopefull I'll be up and running soon. From what I can see Smooth Bean 1.3.2 was the best rom yet.
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I updated using Smooth Bean 1.3.2 with the re-mixed update file. Since I was having problems getting my tablet to power to 100%, and the black screens I performed the "format" that was listed above. Now my tablet won't boot at all. I think i'll let it power completely off, and if I can get it running i'll clear out all data and start from scratch.
Thanks everyone for your advice and hopefull I'll be up and running soon. From what I can see Smooth Bean 1.3.2 was the best rom yet.
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My tablet is now booting, and i'm loading everything from scratch. Thanks again.
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My tablet is now booting, and i'm loading everything from scratch. Thanks again.
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Glad to help. If you have any issues please feel free to PM me or update this tread. I typically use the mobile app so I will see everything that is updated.
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Works beautifly
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Glad to help. If you have any issues please feel free to PM me or update this tread. I typically use the mobile app so I will see everything that is updated.
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I reloaded the G Tablet from scratch and I even wiped the 16gig SD card. I have never installed a ROM that was this responsive. It is incredible, and i'm loving how fast it is. Normally I have to tweak the min CPU but with this I never had too. Thanks for your Smooth Bean, Effort, and I'll donate when I move to your thread.
I do have one issue that has not gone away though. When I'm in your Smooth Bean thread and click "thanks" my screen goes black. This also seemed to happed when i opened ES Taskmanager. To fix it, I press power to blank the screen, and then I come back in and the screen is good.
Any ideas?
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I reloaded the G Tablet from scratch and I even wiped the 16gig SD card. I have never installed a ROM that was this responsive. It is incredible, and i'm loving how fast it is. Normally I have to tweak the min CPU but with this I never had too. Thanks for your Smooth Bean, Effort, and I'll donate when I move to your thread.
I do have one issue that has not gone away though. When I'm in your Smooth Bean thread and click "thanks" my screen goes black. This also seemed to happed when i opened ES Taskmanager. To fix it, I press power to blank the screen, and then I come back in and the screen is good.
Any ideas?
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Yeah it seams that I over did a few things and will be reworking them. Hope to post a new update with changes as long as thing go alright. This new one should be all good.
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Ever since I flashed EB01 I have been having problems with screen responsiveness, It will seem to work fine then after awhile will work selectively.
When I had voodoo installed, it started to do it I was running superclean 2.4
I flashed today back to EB01 Stock rooted non-voodoo, was still seeing it after awhile.
I also just flashed MIUI to play with today, and still am seeing it.
Baseband. EB01
Kernel: 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1
I have the same problem, with any ROM that is not an official ROM from Verizon. It seems to be happening as soon as I root it. It is intermittent and locking and then unlocking the screen fixes it.
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Mine works fine.
glenniosaurus said:
Ever since I flashed EB01 I have been having problems with screen responsiveness, It will seem to work fine then after awhile will work selectively.
When I had voodoo installed, it started to do it I was running superclean 2.4
I flashed today back to EB01 Stock rooted non-voodoo, was still seeing it after awhile.
I also just flashed MIUI to play with today, and still am seeing it.
Baseband. EB01
Kernel: 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1
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First...post questions in general. Second did you wipe data prior to instal?
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Mine works fine.
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And what was the purpose of your response in this thread?
What launcher are you using? I had this problem and switched launchers from Zeam back to Launcher Pro, when I did that, all my lag issues with screen responsiveness were fixed.
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And what was the purpose of your response in this thread?
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Same as yours pointing his out. Seriously many people here need to take a chill pill. In all reality his did help as it shows that he does not have the problem. The more people that have the problem the bigger it is. This helps weed it out.
I had this problem last night trying to press the h key. I am running SC 2.4
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happens to me also. I wonder why it dosnt happen to everyone??? And yes, i wiped and flashed.
Happens to me too. Seems to get worse with time. I was running superclean but flashed back to stock because the responsiveness got so bad my phone wasn't really usable. Happening again with debloated froyo too
It's happened to me on every Froyo ROM, even vanilla on occasion. It's probably just Samsung's ****ty kernel and so there's nothing much that can be done until there's source to work with.
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I think I might have found a solution. I went into stock recovery and wiped cache. After a reboot I no longer have the responsiveness issues.
Edit: unfortunately I still have the unresponsiveness issues...seems it was temporary fix. Also, it is always the middle of my screen from top to bottom which becomes unresponsive. How about the rest of you guys?
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Same as yours pointing his out. Seriously many people here need to take a chill pill. In all reality his did help as it shows that he does not have the problem. The more people that have the problem the bigger it is. This helps weed it out.
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His post contributed nothing as it provided no useful information to the op. He's looking for an ans...who cares if it worked for him. If that's the case we would have over a hundred posts pop up in here saying "mine works". If that's what you're going to say then at least provide some information the op cam use.
I too have been perplexed with this problem. Posted up in general but no solution has been found. I usually get so annoyed I go back to eclair for a while till I get ambitious enough to try again.
I will also point out that I loose all screen sensitivity when the charger is plugged in. Yes, stock charger and does not do this at all on eclair.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957150
My phone and girls phone do this, mine is on sc2.4, hers is on sc2.2.
Its only slightly annoying at the moment for me, but she texts a lot and complains about the keyboard not working all the time.
The only unresponsiveness that I've noticed is that when I need to end a call, I find that I frequently have to tap "End" multiple times.
I'm also running Beautiful Widgets, so I assumed that that might have something to do with it.
Since BW requires an extra screen tap when coming out of a locked screen, I was assuming it was just a bug with the widget until I saw these posts.
Ok look if your useing set cpu and you set it to on demand your going to see lag but if you have this app and set it to conservative you will not have lag. If you are useing this app this will help you if thats your prob. If not them I suggest you DL'ed it to help your over all speed. I'm useing go launcher ex. Also as a side note I don't have any prob with my phone.
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Ok look if your useing set cpu and you set it to on demand your going to see lag but if you have this app and set it to conservative you will not have lag. If you are useing this app this will help you if thats your prob. If not them I suggest you DL'ed it to help your over all speed. I'm useing go launcher ex. Also as a side note I don't have any prob with my phone.
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That's a great point. I never thought of that but I had also been noticing some lag while set cpu was set to on demand. Switched to conservative and did seem to notice a difference. Thanks.
I've always had SetCPU on conservative, 1GHz max and 200MHz min. Maybe I don't see it as much as you all say but it's enough for me to notice.
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I just recently flashed eclipse 2.1 over my the old eclipse I think it was 2.0.4 or something like that. Anyway, in my opinion it is the best rom for the x2 so thanks goes out to him for working hard keeping it relevant in this every so updating community. So, my problem is, after flashing to eclipse 2.1 my phone will not flip from vertical to horizontal when trying to type or really do anything for that matter. I know it's not a problem with the device because when I load "super stickman golf" the phone has no problem switching. My question is, 1) is there anyone else having this problem and 2) can it be fixed? I love this community and I think it's great to see developers who aren't being paid work so hard to bring up roms that add value to our phones. Thanks for taking the time to read this post and have a great afternoon/morning/day.
Just tried this, seems to be working for me fine. Went rom 1.2 rc1 tho to 2,1.
Yea, I may have changed something in settings without knowing I guess. Seems as if everyone would be having the same problem, I may just reflash and see if that fixes the problem. Thanks for the quick response.
Fixed it, I'm an idiot. It was just something in the settings that was unchecked.
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Fixed it, I'm an idiot. It was just something in the settings that was unchecked.
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Why is everyone hesitant to doing an SBF?? Clean slate = Clean install
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Pixelation said:
Why is everyone hesitant to doing an SBF?? Clean slate = Clean install
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because NOR flash memory has a finite number of write cycles (less than the NAND flash memory like your SD card!) and it IS possible to flash your phone too much. I did it to my MyTouch3G, can't do anything to it now, can't even wipe it, nothing saves it just goes through the motions, It's as read only as you can get.
like every time it reboots I have to go through initial setup in an intolerably slow way.
I mean, it functions, which is impressive given the situation, but consider this.
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because NOR flash memory has a finite number of write cycles (less than the NAND flash memory like your SD card!) and it IS possible to flash your phone too much. I did it to my MyTouch3G, can't do anything to it now, can't even wipe it, nothing saves it just goes through the motions, It's as read only as you can get.
like every time it reboots I have to go through initial setup in an intolerably slow way.
I mean, it functions, which is impressive given the situation, but consider this.
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How did you get to that "overflash" point? That's nuts and Im sorry you're going through that!
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My launcher keeps freezing up. Have to force stop it from the apps menu. Any help?
malaeus said:
My launcher keeps freezing up. Have to force stop it from the apps menu. Any help?
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Not that I know of, have you also tried clearing its cache? Maybe even go so far as to clear the cache and data? If neither of those helps, then something's been tweaked or corrupted in your system; at which point a factory reset/manual update would do the trick I imagine. Be sure to back up all your apps and important information off the internal SD card if it comes to that though.
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Just noticed in your signature that you're unlocked and on a custom ROM. Have you tried a third-party launcher? Could it be an issue with the ROM itself?
Was kinda afraid of that. Its a stock blob in CWM wrapper. So it "shouldn't" be corruption but.... we all know how that goes. I've wiped cache etc and even reinstalled the launcher with root. Same issue develops after a few hours.
Tnx for your help. Which other custom rom would you recommend? I wanna stay mostly stock.
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Was kinda afraid of that. Its a stock blob in CWM wrapper. So it "shouldn't" be corruption but.... we all know how that goes. I've wiped cache etc and even reinstalled the launcher with root. Same issue develops after a few hours.
Tnx for your help. Which other custom rom would you recommend? I wanna stay mostly stock.
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Haha, no clue, I haven't watched the dev thread as well as I should I haven't unlocked just yet due to the drop of warranty and lack of proper nvflash. I would do the same honestly, try and keep stock. Maybe just try an earlier version. I'll have a look at the dev section and see if anything pops out. Have you checked the md5 sums and everything, or just tried redownloading?
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Haha, no clue, I haven't watched the dev thread as well as I should :embarrassed: I haven't unlocked just yet due to the drop of warranty and lack of proper nvflash. I would do the same honestly, try and keep stock. Maybe just try an earlier version. I'll have a look at the dev section and see if anything pops out. Have you checked the md5 sums and everything, or just tried redownloading?
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I've redownloaded 3 times. Everything else works nicely. I did test the motley kernel, however I've since reverted to stock kernel. And I've wiped and reinstalled after that when the launcher kept crashing. I might give virtuous a try if this continues.
Aye, seems to me as though the ROM just isn't handling the launcher well or has some kind of mem leak or something. Try out Virtuous Prime or Primalicious, they both seem pretty true to stock but Primalicious has less minimalist icons. And it is the stock launcher right?
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Aye, seems to me as though the ROM just isn't handling the launcher well or has some kind of mem leak or something. Try out Virtuous Prime or Primalicious, they both seem pretty true to stock but Primalicious has less minimalist icons. And it is the stock launcher right?
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actually. now both launchers i use crash in the same way.
all items disappear. however i can still swipe, and if i randomly tap things open that should be visible.
i use stock asus launcher. as well as GO launcher HD
it just seems that after awhile of either using or sitting the tablet, the launcher just fails. and it takes me frantically tapping it to bring up the "not responding" text.
otherwise i just go into settings/apps and kill it.
thanks for your help. im going to try out a couple different ROMs to see if it can solve this issue.
seems every device i have ends up with very weird unexplainable issues. and ive changed up everything from device to device (you know, scientific method and whatnot) and can not seem to isolate what causes these problems.
malaeus said:
actually. now both launchers i use crash in the same way.
all items disappear. however i can still swipe, and if i randomly tap things open that should be visible.
i use stock asus launcher. as well as GO launcher HD
it just seems that after awhile of either using or sitting the tablet, the launcher just fails. and it takes me frantically tapping it to bring up the "not responding" text.
otherwise i just go into settings/apps and kill it.
thanks for your help. im going to try out a couple different ROMs to see if it can solve this issue.
seems every device i have ends up with very weird unexplainable issues. and ive changed up everything from device to device (you know, scientific method and whatnot) and can not seem to isolate what causes these problems.
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Welcome to electronics and programming Lol, really the most important thing is to start off strong and have a solid base to build from. We haven't though, we're still having to shuffle official updates to try and reach that point. Although I have faith in our dev's and they've worked toward fixing a lot of the issues already, it will only get better once true stock gets stable and the dev's get proper nvflash access. Until then I'm afraid things will be pretty sporadic. That's what we get for falling for all the hype on a brand new device.
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Also, have you set your I/O scheduler to something other than noop? Check out ATP Tweak in the dev sub-forum and see if that doesn't help.
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buxtahuda said:
Welcome to electronics and programming Lol, really the most important thing is to start off strong and have a solid base to build from. We haven't though, we're still having to shuffle official updates to try and reach that point. Although I have faith in our dev's and they've worked toward fixing a lot of the issues already, it will only get better once true stock gets stable and the dev's get proper nvflash access. Until then I'm afraid things will be pretty sporadic. That's what we get for falling for all the hype on a brand new device.
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Also, have you set your I/O scheduler to something other than noop? Check out ATP Tweak in the dev sub-forum and see if that doesn't help.
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yes, i am sadly very used to unstable builds on my devices. but, its always better than what the original manufacturers release.
and thats just the price to be paid for staying on the bleeding edge of this tech.
i am fairly experienced with the basics of flashing ROM's and beta testing, but i am faaaar from being a programmer/developer so i am not quite sure how to change the I/O scheduler anything past using pre-done scripts like the V8 Supercharger.
ill check out that tweak, thank you again for your help.
Background: Updated my ICS unlocked i9300 to JB finally last night.
Can anyone advise why when i was on ICS, i was experiencing no lag at all and the entire experience was really nice, but now i have upgrade to JB the experience is very poor due to allot of lag and general system slowness? For example, if i kill the messaging app from long pressing the home key (with a kill all open tasks), when i re-open the messaging i will be greeted with only phone numbers on the display initially but then after a sec or 2 the names and pics are populated. Also another exapmle would be the keyboard (stock one), when clicking in the URL box of any browser or in the messaging app (again stock as before), the keyboard takes quite some time to appear!?!
It seems very odd to me as JB is supposed to be very good with it's "butter" but is not performing for me at all in the way it should?!?
Any help greatly appreciated as i now no-longer like my phone very much :crying:
kil43 said:
Background: Updated my ICS unlocked i9300 to JB finally last night.
Can anyone advise why when i was on ICS, i was experiencing no lag at all and the entire experience was really nice, but now i have upgrade to JB the experience is very poor due to allot of lag and general system slowness? For example, if i kill the messaging app from long pressing the home key (with a kill all open tasks), when i re-open the messaging i will be greeted with only phone numbers on the display initially but then after a sec or 2 the names and pics are populated. Also another exapmle would be the keyboard (stock one), when clicking in the URL box of any browser or in the messaging app (again stock as before), the keyboard takes quite some time to appear!?!
It seems very odd to me as JB is supposed to be very good with it's "butter" but is not performing for me at all in the way it should?!?
Any help greatly appreciated as i now no-longer like my phone very much :crying:
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Guess what???
Problem is not jellybean... its you.
There's no way jellybean is very slow compare to your ics..
If ics is faster for you then go back to the ics.
I got the exict same problem ! the main theme ringtone in the start booting screen plays but no video just black screen with the sound.. Afrer it boots its very very laggy and after like 15min the phone freez with black screen.
i got the update today im from kuwait .
Seems as if wiping cache and dalvik has been forgotten. ..
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'Crest+', very unhelpful answer and the type of answer you'd expect from dumb asses that use nokia. If you bothered searching the net you'd realise that this issue has affected allot of people and i thought i'd ask the experts at xda - but i guess trollers have made it here as well.
Wiping was not done in my case due to the fact that it was not advised to do so via any point of the update and should have been setup to be more like the upgrade from froyo to GB and actually worked properly without having to do so on other devices. Why would anyone want to wipe the cache and dalvik if not prompted to do so via the official process?!?
Did u try factory reat?
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Did u try factory reat?
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No as it was not required but it would appear this is the only possible resolve... Joy, time to backup and restore tonight which knowing kies will take about 4.5 hours...
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'Crest+', very unhelpful answer and the type of answer you'd expect from dumb asses that use nokia. If you bothered searching the net you'd realise that this issue has affected allot of people and i thought i'd ask the experts at xda - but i guess trollers have made it here as well.
Wiping was not done in my case due to the fact that it was not advised to do so via any point of the update and should have been setup to be more like the upgrade from froyo to GB and actually worked properly without having to do so on other devices. Why would anyone want to wipe the cache and dalvik if not prompted to do so via the official process?!?
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and here i thought you were the one trolling...
but since there are people experiencing also..
I apologize for my response earlier..
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Here's what you need to do... try flashing a full firmware from sammobile...probably the latest firmware to make sure its updated...
then flash it using odin... I never experienced this so called lag that's why I answered the question based on my experience.
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and here i thought you were the one trolling...
but since there are people experiencing also..
I apologize for my response earlier..
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Here's what you need to do... try flashing a full firmware from sammobile...probably the latest firmware to make sure its updated...
then flash it using odin... I never experienced this so called lag that's why I answered the question based on my experience.
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Not a problem, i will try the factory reset first as i should have the full latest seeing as it was stock updated through kies last night. Worst case scenario is i go back to custom romming it.
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Not a problem, i will try the factory reset first as i should have the full latest seeing as it was stock updated through kies last night. Worst case scenario is i go back to custom romming it.
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Did it works?
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Did it works?
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Due to me not having much time at the point of needing to format and restore i decided to carry on for a few days until getting the opportunity, but oddly the issue seems to have gone now
The only thing i can link it to is the fact that i ran through all the settings and was greeted with the annoying 'help' popups, and once i cycled through al the menus getting rid of the last popup...no more lag The phone is running very smooth (as it should), but really can't see how the menu aids were slowing it down (if they were), but they are the only thing i can link the issue to :silly:
kil43 said:
Due to me not having much time at the point of needing to format and restore i decided to carry on for a few days until getting the opportunity, but oddly the issue seems to have gone now
The only thing i can link it to is the fact that i ran through all the settings and was greeted with the annoying 'help' popups, and once i cycled through al the menus getting rid of the last popup...no more lag The phone is running very smooth (as it should), but really can't see how the menu aids were slowing it down (if they were), but they are the only thing i can link the issue to :silly:
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I have tried many jb roms and i have to say that although jb is extremely smooth,I always find it extremely slow compared to good old GB.
I have the feeling that they have sacfificed speed for smoothness!
Same thing on mine Galaxy S3
I've just experienced same thing as you..
Sluggish, laggy.. and everything after i did official update to Jelly Bean..
Resolve:
Turn phone off
VOL UP+HOME+POWER..
Wipe cache...
That's it
At least it's working for me
Cheers
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I've just experienced same thing as you..
Sluggish, laggy.. and everything after i did official update to Jelly Bean..
Resolve:
Turn phone off
VOL UP+HOME+POWER..
Wipe cache...
That's it
At least it's working for me
Cheers
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Yeah i did this as well after the post about the guide menus (forgot to post update), and the phone is back to it's glorious state.
I recently flashed my Samsung Fascinate with PowerWashed Team's PWGB Version 2.0 (Beta 3). I'm terribly new to using custom ROMs, but I'm quite pleased with the results. I've only had one concern with this ROM regarding the back light on the soft keys. They light up every time I touch my screen or press a hard key.
I've attempted to find a setting for this in the OS and in CwM Voodoo Lagfix Recovery v2.5.1.x screen, but wasn't able to find such a setting (Again, I'm very green so it could be right under my nose and I simply don't know it.)
I also attempted to install myriad apps to keep the back light off on screen touch including:
Screen Filter (No effect)
Night Mode (No effect)
Light Flow Lite - LED Control (No effect)
Light Manager - LED Settings (This app actually stops the back light from coming on, however it's unpredictable and works >15% of the time)
I've also done a lot of searching on the matter. I've seen where others have stated the problem, but none where there was a solution or enough information for me to further investigate a way to fix this. It's also been complicated to find information due to a variety of search terms (soft keys, led, etc.) yielding results about the camera or other things that are unrelated to my issue coupled with my lack of direct knowledge on the matter.
I'd really appreciate any advice on either directly fixing this or a source of information so I may learn more from what is causing this behavior and fixing it myself. Thanks, everyone for all the time and effort you've put in for making things like this accessible to individuals like me. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
This behavior is a product of the kernel, and most people find it desirable. If you install the kernel control app nstools, you should see an option called cmled timeout, allowing you to set the led backlight timeout.
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This behavior is a product of the kernel, and most people find it desirable. If you install the kernel control app nstools, you should see an option called cmled timeout, allowing you to set the led backlight timeout.
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Thanks for the information! Unfortunately, the ROM I flashed has a stock kernel and doesn't offer this option. So, I suppose that's the first thing I need to address, but now I know where the problem lies! Thank you so much for your time and input, I'll put it to good use.
Are you saying the back lights light up even if you just touch the screen? That's strange, they only have ever lit up for me when I actually touch a soft key or hit the power button to wake the phone up.
Well good luck, I'm not sure what kernel is best for GB as I started flashing custom roms during ICS and I'm now on Jelly Bean and never going backwards.
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Are you saying the back lights light up even if you just touch the screen?
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Yes, exactly this. It is really odd and very bothersome when trying to read at night. Even if I use the volume rocker to turn the page the lights will come on. It's maddening. I'm currently looking at the kgb kernel, but I think the nstools led option isn't actually going to address this quirk. (Directly, I believe I will end up disabling the led altogether)
If you don't mind, what rom did you choose?(Ignore, I was on mobile and did not see your signature at the time)
How has the performance been? I'm interested in doing the same, but was afraid my fascinate wouldn't handle jb very well.
Well needless to say it's different for everybody when it comes to roms, sometimes your phone will have no problem running a certain rom where as someone else's might not even boot. As for myself I've been pretty fortunate and have been able to try any rom I've wanted to with success, and I'll give you a few of my thoughts on it.
If you're wondering about performance, well simply put JB blows everything else away and runs like a dream on the Fascinate. Once you spend a few days with it you'll never want to go back honestly. Even on our aging hardware, it runs amazingly fast, even without kernel performance tweaks.
Anyway, as far as roms go, if you're most concerned with stability and reliability then I would highly suggest CM10 (whatever the latest nightly version is). Of all the roms I've tried, it's by far the one that's given me the least hassle. That said, I'm quite fond of the tweaks offered in AOKP, mainly the voltage settings (for battery life) and the fact that it seems to vibe much better with Devil kernel than CM10 does. I've been running my current rom/kernel for a couple of weeks now, and I'm happy enough with how it's running to keep it as my daily driver for a while.
This isn't to say the GB roms aren't any good, because of course they are, but considering how nice JB roms run on our phone you'd be doing a disservice by not at least giving them a shot.
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If you're wondering about performance, well simply put JB blows everything else away and runs like a dream on the Fascinate. Once you spend a few days with it you'll never want to go back honestly. Even on our aging hardware, it runs amazingly fast, even without kernel performance tweaks.
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You sold me on the idea of JB. Flashed it today, and I love it so far. Plus, my soft key lights aren't constantly on! Win-win.
Thank you so much for the guidance. Your input helped turn a satisfactory experience with ROMs into a trully positive one.
Glad to hear you liked it man, I was reluctant at first too due to (at the time) no 'official' releases, but I'm glad I made the jump. I'm quite enjoying AOKP M1 and will probably stay on it for a long time. Which rom did you end up trying?
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Glad to hear you liked it man, I was reluctant at first too due to (at the time) no 'official' releases, but I'm glad I made the jump. I'm quite enjoying AOKP M1 and will probably stay on it for a long time. Which rom did you end up trying?
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I was really impressed with your review, so I chose to go with the same rom. It also seemed like the most stable option and easiest for me to understand the installation procedure (very important for me since this is my only device and more than just my daily driver, it's my life line). I had been extremely hesitant to go to JB for fear of junking my phone up, but I'm really glad I took the extra risk. I just needed an extra bit of encouragement. Thanks again for all your input!
If you managed to install AOKP smoothly you can pretty much install any rom the same way, basically meaning wipe data and cache/davlik then flash whatever you want to. Luckily this phone happens to be very hard to break, and you'd have to do something pretty extreme to brick it. I highly recommend Titanium backup pro so you can just backup the apps you want, and restore them in no time when you're trying different roms. Also, I've been using some voltage settings that make battery life insanely good, so if you're interested in doing that let me know and I'll post them.
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I was really impressed with your review, so I chose to go with the same rom. It also seemed like the most stable option and easiest for me to understand the installation procedure (very important for me since this is my only device and more than just my daily driver, it's my life line). I had been extremely hesitant to go to JB for fear of junking my phone up, but I'm really glad I took the extra risk. I just needed an extra bit of encouragement. Thanks again for all your input!
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Regarding the key back light, since you are on aokp jellybean now if you still want to tweak the settings, goto settings and then device settings. There you can adjust the timeout on them
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If you managed to install AOKP smoothly you can pretty much install any rom the same way, basically meaning wipe data and cache/davlik then flash whatever you want to. Luckily this phone happens to be very hard to break, and you'd have to do something pretty extreme to brick it. I highly recommend Titanium backup pro so you can just backup the apps you want, and restore them in no time when you're trying different roms. Also, I've been using some voltage settings that make battery life insanely good, so if you're interested in doing that let me know and I'll post them.
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just a little hint: NEVER RESTORE SYSTEM APPS WITH TITANIUM YOU WILL GET BOOTLOOP
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I've restored Nova before that was a system backup with no problems but I agree about anything else. Not sure what system apps anyone would even want to backup really
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I've restored Nova before that was a system backup with no problems but I agree about anything else. Not sure what system apps anyone would even want to backup really
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Dude I mean like system UI or settings lol
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Dude I mean like system UI or settings lol
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I've actually done that before just to see what happened (system settings) and it didn't bootloop, it simply didn't restore anything. Not that I mind re-setting everything after a clean install, just figured I'd try to save a little time
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I've actually done that before just to see what happened (system settings) and it didn't bootloop, it simply didn't restore anything. Not that I mind re-setting everything after a clean install, just figured I'd try to save a little time
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Are you trying too teach him too restore system apps lol?
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Nope not at all, just chiming in on what happened when I tried it. It should be a no brainer to anyone flashing roms to not restore system apps, even if they're new to it honestly
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Nope not at all, just chiming in on what happened when I tried it. It should be a no brainer to anyone flashing roms to not restore system apps, even if they're new to it honestly
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I know but it would surprise you I've had people complain because they flashed a i9000 ROM and it didn't work because the developer is stupid LOL
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