The reason i made this thread is because on Elegancia thread there is no reply for past 15 hours.
The rom is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136040
The installation is freezing during selecting specific applications, dunno why it is happening.
Thankfully i made a nandroid backup of mysenseRC3.5 and am back to it.
Any ideas why is this happening, I didn't remove my pattern lock but wiped everything.
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
The update notice came through on my phone yesterday afternoon. From reading on here I knew that a number of people were having problems with it. Like a meth addicted crackwhore I couldn't say no.
Before saying yes, I did make a backup.
Here's what I had on my phone beforehand:
Modified swype overlay
Modified battery icon
OCLF 2.1+
GPS fix update
I'd renamed the startup video so it wouldn't show
I'd replaced the startup sound with my own
I think that's all.
I did a nandroid backup before applying the update and even made a copy of the backup just in case.
I undid the lagfix but - perhaps stupidly - left all the other updates in place.
After applying the update my phone was stuck at the vibrant screen right after boot. No amount of waiting - 30 minutes the first time - did any good.
I've been through several rounds of flashing using the second round of steps in this thread but the best that happens is when the phone boots I see the stock home and the media,calendar,(+a few others I can't recall) FC continuously and the home shows a bunch of missing widget boxes.
If I do a nandroid restore I strangely end up with the hung vibrant screen again. It's like it's automatically applying the update or something other odd like that.
I can repartition and flash stock or the updated rom and things are working fine but I'd really rather not lose my data.
It occurred to me this morning that I might have done the backup before removing the lag fix. I'm guessing the backup won't recreate the ext2 partition and that's why things are FC'ing like mad?
I'm going to - probably pointlessly - try to re-flash, install the lag fix and do a restore to see if anything different happens.
If anyone else has a suggestion while I wait for my phone to charge enough to do the lag fix .... little tiny voice... <help?>
Well, re-installing oclf 2.1 didnt change the behavior. I've still got a brick after restoring my nandroid backup.
I've gone back to a clean ji6 install and I'm trying a titanium restore. I'll be a week out of date if this works but won't lose anything critical. If this works. I hope, I hope, I hope.
That happen to me too, had to odin back to stock then flash bionix 1.7. lost all my data
How about flashing JI6, applying OCLF, booting into clockwork recovery and selecting Nandroid-> Advanced-> (Your restore file)-> Data-> Yes.
This will reflash all your data on top of the new rom. The reason for reapplying the OCLF is because you backed up BEFORE undoing OCLF, so all your data is still in a .EXT2 file, so we have to have it expecting that before restoring.
Only thing left to do at this point is redo any themes you had installed, and your phone should be back to normal + the update.
I must have backed up after removing OCLF because I ended up flashing stock and restoring just the data. Unfortunately while the data was there, none of my apps were so the fact that the data was there was moot since I couldn't get at a lot of it.
I followed up by flashing just system and now I've got my full functionality back just without ji6.
I'll probably try again after rolling back a few more changes -such as removing the rom manager update.zip - and making another backup or three.
I wonder if the people who've rooted - like me - are having problems because of updated versions of busybox that clockworkmod installs.
Also, the titanium restore worked on stock. I haven't tried it on ji6. yet.
After all the forced learning by doing where flashing roms is concerned I decided to skip the tmo update since they can't be bothered to provide a full list of fixes. I've installed the latest bionix and couldn't be happier.
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That happen to me too, had to odin back to stock then flash bionix 1.7. lost all my data
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I've found that a Titanium backup is enough to use when flashing a new rom. Do a full backup. Flash the new rom. Restore apps+data. Selectively restore the green system items (so you get all your sms msgs and contacts). Enjoy. Worked for me on Sunday as I flashed various versions of bionix to try.
Hey guys,
Just Flashed to Bionix -V 1.3.1. Trying to restore all my apps and data with Titanium but it force closes pretty much anything i try and open. Is there something I have to clear before i can restore all my apps and data?
dont restore anything that has "SYSTEM DATA"
I dont think explained myself properly the first time. I mean anything i pretty much try and open that wasnt orignally on the phone gets forced close. Carhome, Opera mini, pingchat, reddit app, most of the games. Also id like to include that most of my apps were already restored when the phone booted up for the first time. Should I just reflash the rom?
if your apps and everything were there upon first boot it sounds like you had a bad install, something in the updater script got messed up when you downloaded. Redownload and Reflash sounds like your best option.
Yeah, something is not right there. A good install would wipe your phone (none of your apps should be there).
I would personally suggest going back to stock and then flashing. Its a super easy process and I wrote a guide in my signature, may help.
OK so ive redownloaded bionix and ive put it on the internal sd card. I rebooted in recovery. disable lagfix and rebooted. now its just sitting on the Vibrant boot up screen.... for about 15 minutes now.
I thought this **** was supposed to get easier..
NVM its rebooting now. Im reflashing it now, ill let you know after the reboot how it went.
Fixed.
Just restored 229 apps. **** me.
So is everything good?
Note that usually before flashing you are supposed to do a factory reset was it? I forget but the EDT Roms had the correct procedure to do in clockwork right before you flash a ROM so that you don't get issues like this. If your issue is still not resolved, look up an EDT ROM page and look the installation procedure.
I installed avast mobile security and set everything up as a root user. I'm on the stock ROM and as soon as I was done setting everything up I rebooted and now Im' stuck in a boot loop. It does not boot loop every time... sometimes it boots up and after about a minute it reboots itself, then bootloops.
I removed avast as an administrator / rebooted / then did a clear data and uninstall. Same thing happens so I booted into amon and did a clear cache and dalvik cache.
I've also booted into Amon and wiped all caches. Still no go and I notice that I'm not getting any signal bars (yes, I remembered to put the cover back on). Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Try this.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394659
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edit: try what the person above me posted first.
Are you on the stock kernel too? I would recommend doing a full nandroid backup and an internal SD card backup and RUU from scratch if you can't get the loops to stop.
I ran avast! for a while with no issues. Could be the link above is what you need.
Thank you all, trying option #1 now. I do have a Nandroid backup I did after I first rooted, and I am on the the stock Kernel.
Holy Cow, it was set to WCDMA Preferred! I'm really surprised that avast changed that setting. I put it back to the correct setting and now my signal is back. I'm rebooting now to see if it sticks.
Thank you all a ton! I'll post back in a few and let you know if that did the trick *fingers crossed*....
Update: Been about 15 minutes and no bootloop or auto reboot so the fix seemed to have worked. Once again, thanks a ton you guys for the help, I appreciate it.
I doubt it was avast that did it. It seems to happen randomly to certain people.
I am trying to flash into this custom ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766999 on my ATT galaxy s3... the first times i tried it it hung indefinitely at the updating android applicatoins screen after installing.. I was successfully able to restore from my nandroid fortunately.
The third time, I booted into the OS but it started hanging when i was signing into my google account and never let me open any applications. Then when I reboot it it just hung at the samsung screen forever.
I don't know what im doing wrong, I am clearing data and cache and then flashing from the SD drive then rebooting. Am I the only one having this problem? Should I try another rom and see if that works?
This is my first time flashing a ROM
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I am trying to flash into this custom ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766999 on my ATT galaxy s3... the first times i tried it it hung indefinitely at the updating android applicatoins screen after installing.. I was successfully able to restore from my nandroid fortunately.
The third time, I booted into the OS but it started hanging when i was signing into my google account and never let me open any applications. Then when I reboot it it just hung at the samsung screen forever.
I don't know what im doing wrong, I am clearing data and cache and then flashing from the SD drive then rebooting. Am I the only one having this problem? Should I try another rom and see if that works?
This is my first time flashing a ROM
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i would restore my nandroid and see if all is well, if so, try a wipe of cache, dalvic cache, and factory reset, then try flashing the rom, if that fails too, try a different rom.
It seems based on the official thread that many users experienced the same problem flashing to 4.0 from stock.. Have to go to 3.0 first and then 4.0 (see the thread I linked, last couple of pages)...
Posting it here in case I wasn't the only one who didn't read the whole thread.
Hi, all! I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, but I'm having a hard time trying to understand the different forums.
My Samsung Galaxy Ace (S5830) running under a custom ROM The Ultimatum (I've been using this custom firmware for a few weeks now, with no real problems up until now), is bootlooping with no apparent reason. On a rare occasion, most apps on the phone stopped responding and would crash upon opening, and would require a restart before they worked again. Well this happened to me a few hours ago, so I decided to reboot my phone. After coming back to check my phone, I had found it was still booting. This has gone on for several hours now, and I've tried turning it on and off, removing batteries and everything. It's stuck in bootloop. I found this was odd, as I have had no dramas with the firmware I've been using. I have not made ANY recent changes to the phone whatsoever, so I can hardly believe it would be my fault.
Now, my question is; how do I fix this without wiping all data and installing a clean ROM? I have a lot of stuff in the internal storage I can't afford to lose, and it's really important to me. A full wipe of all data would not be ideal. I can access recovery mode.
Thanks in advance, and I apologise if this is in the wrong forum!
You might want to ask to the rom thread for some help or ask in this section,
Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Anyway, I will try to help. If your custom recovery is support backup and restore (and advanced restore) your rom (check your custom recovery thread), try to backup your phone rom for now, so you could restore it back when solution not working.
Try to reflash the rom again without wipe data and reboot. If still in bootloop try to wipe data and reboot, see if that phone still bootloop.
If phone is successfully boot, go back to recovery and go to advanced restore, restore only data and then reboot. If still not working, then just full restore back to the phone to state before since I have no idea anymore.
That is the option I only know for now. However, try to ask help on section I link above or the rom thread before try this one, since I only familiar with Galaxy Gio (really similar to Ace) in the past.
I tried what you suggested but no positive results, really. I managed to boot after a full wipe, but restoring data locked it back into a bootloop. I'll try posting it in the other section.
Thanks.