Related
I saw that there was a similar thread in the Epic 4G forum, but I wanted to make sure before I start trying something that might mess up the phone even further. My wife's vibrant will start having everything force close on her after a few weeks. This has happened on 2 or three different ROMs, and I'm not sure what's causing it. I saw the similar thread where it might be related to "journaling", but we don't change her battery out at all or even reboot the phone that often, so I'm not sure if its the same issue. I've done a reset of her phone a few times, but I'm on a GB ROM so it doesn't go completely back to factory. Should I try to ODIN to stock? Any ideas why this happens? Thanks in advance.
Try fixing permissions in CWM first and see if that helps.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda premium
Fix permissions worked for a while, but not anymore. Everything's force closing again. Will the journaling fix help?
Anybody have any ideas? Gonna wipe then install a newer ROM, but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Only titanium the "necessary" apps that you wanna keep your data from. Then uninstall it - often I find that this helps for some odd reason.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda premium
chairhome said:
I saw that there was a similar thread in the Epic 4G forum, but I wanted to make sure before I start trying something that might mess up the phone even further. My wife's vibrant will start having everything force close on her after a few weeks. This has happened on 2 or three different ROMs, and I'm not sure what's causing it. I saw the similar thread where it might be related to "journaling", but we don't change her battery out at all or even reboot the phone that often, so I'm not sure if its the same issue. I've done a reset of her phone a few times, but I'm on a GB ROM so it doesn't go completely back to factory. Should I try to ODIN to stock? Any ideas why this happens? Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get into recovery:
wipe dalvik
wipe cache
fix permissions
reboot
wait 10 mins reboot into recovery again
fix permissions
reboot
open rom manager [worth its weight in gold!]
fix permissions
reboot
Thats what I did with my cm7.1.0.1 but I also installed eugenes streamline 110411 ver and [knock on wood] havnt had any more issues with fc's.
And yes even if you follow the installs to a "T" some of us still have the FC issue!
Good luck!
3 weeks later and I'm back to square one. I'll try the above, if it doesn't work, i'll have to wipe and reinstall. thanks. What's eugene's streamline?
Id flash to stock, flashing different roms wont help if theres a ghost in the machine, what launcher are you running...touchwiz sucks on my wimpy replacement phone.
Sugartibbs said:
Id flash to stock, flashing different roms wont help if theres a ghost in the machine, what launcher are you running...touchwiz sucks on my wimpy replacement phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
MIUI's launcher. I'll probably try flashing to stock soon. :-(
No go. I'll have to look into Eugene's streamlined 110411
ok just for future sake, 3 rule's of flashing,
it's better to reinstall your applications manually then to trust titanium when bouncing between roms with different frameworks, versions, partitions, etc.
always flash from stock unless your updating a weekly rom ie cm7/miui
after flashing power off screen and have a cup of coffee/beer/shower. give the OS time to do all it's background configurations and setup.
now if you follow those 3 rules you "should" have no real issues.
Hi,
I have a major issue with my WiFi and reboots.
Background: I am using an ATT phone within the UK on T-Mobile network.
Randomely, the other day, the WiFi turned off and when I turned it back on, it says Error....
I have tried everything I can think of; wiping and reinstalling rom, erasing everything in fastboot, updating the radio (further question on that) and also kernels! Finally I tried FruitCake to get back to stock, still no luck!!
Radio: Are radio's carrier specific, i.e. could I flash a radio meant for Europe to replace the ATT one? (I am on .36)
What can I do now, please. Thanks
benny6812 said:
Hi,
I have a major issue with my WiFi and reboots.
Background: I am using an ATT phone within the UK on T-Mobile network.
Randomely, the other day, the WiFi turned off and when I turned it back on, it says Error....
I have tried everything I can think of; wiping and reinstalling rom, erasing everything in fastboot, updating the radio (further question on that) and also kernels! Finally I tried FruitCake to get back to stock, still no luck!!
Radio: Are radio's carrier specific, i.e. could I flash a radio meant for Europe to replace the ATT one? (I am on .36)
What can I do now, please. Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If it helps, i accidentally formatted the PDS partition a while back and the reason for reboot is AP KERNEL PANIC
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am having similar problems. Just last night my phone started rebooting frequently after having turl's v8 build of cm9 for probably a week and it was working great. However, now I have tried wiping everything, putting on different cm7 or cm9 builds and what I have come to the conclusion is anytime I turn the WiFi on, it reboots.
It is not even connecting to anything, just turning it on makes it reboot. I was on the .36 radio with this issue, I tried using the .37P radio and it did not fix it.
Does anyone have any other ideas to try and fix?
Benny,
Do you get the option to turn it on? I'm on cm9 and it'll show up like the attached after it reboots.
No. I dont have that screen. It just says wifi error and Bluetooth crashes as well....
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
From the other threads I have read, I think we are boned. It seems like the Broadcom WiFi/Bluetooth chipset is borked and the only fix other people have gotten is through an actual repair. I hope you are under warranty - I'm going to revert to stock and hope they accept it.
bassmarkie said:
From the other threads I have read, I think we are boned. It seems like the Broadcom WiFi/Bluetooth chipset is borked and the only fix other people have gotten is through an actual repair. I hope you are under warranty - I'm going to revert to stock and hope they accept it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
But, how come whenever I flash a new rom, the WiFi will work temporarily, i.e. it would connect, obtain IP etc for a few minutes then just not work until I reflash?
Surely that is not hardware?
Bump
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
Did you use Titanium Backup, and restore apps like Maps, Music, and YouTube? People are saying this can cause issues.
Also did you restore call logs after flashing? I experienced my wifi and mobile networking dying after doing that on only some of the new roms out there lately. It's a bug with one of the base roms, that a lot of custom roms are based off of. It was fixed with a new base rom version, but some of the custom roms have yet to officially update. Updates are under way though. Try out Morrison's 0.7 and see if you get the same result. It's been updated.
Although, you could be having a completely different issue. If you mean you can just leave it running after flashing and the wifi dies, I don't know what to say.
Drakonas said:
Did you use Titanium Backup, and restore apps like Maps, Music, and YouTube? People are saying this can cause issues.
Also did you restore call logs after flashing? I experienced my wifi and mobile networking dying after doing that on only some of the new roms out there lately. It's a bug with one of the base roms, that a lot of custom roms are based off of. It was fixed with a new base rom version, but some of the custom roms have yet to officially update. Updates are under way though. Try out Morrison's 0.7 and see if you get the same result. It's been updated.
Although, you could be having a completely different issue. If you mean you can just leave it running after flashing and the wifi dies, I don't know what to say.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tried all of the above and still nothing unfortunately. Just want to update on symptoms of the phone if that helps:
Everything eventually gets more and more buggy, even recovery is really laggy and slow
Data will stop after a few days use, and only fix that i know of is to reflash
WiFi does not work, it connects for about 30 seconds after a reflash, but then nothing.
Logcat says - Failed to Load WiFi Driver (after reporting WiFi HUNG)
The phone can crash when I plug in the MicroUSB to charge, when it restarts it says AP KERNEL PANIC.
I have tried everything except for flashing via RSD lite, do you think that could work?
Thanks
BUMP,
Any help at all with this unique situation would be very helpful.
Thanks
I have a Milestone X which is the same hardware as the Droid X. I am running stock gingerbread, rooted with some of the stock apps frozen. Sometimes my phone will start getting really slow and after a little while it will slow to almost a standstill before "crashing" and going directly to the startup animation. The problem tends to occur more often when the phone hasn't been rebooted for a while but it sometimes will occur within a couple of hours of a reboot. I have a LOT of apps installed but not a huge number that run in the background. Is there a good way to determine which app is the culprit short of uninstalling most all of them and starting over? Are there any apps in particular that cause problems? I use Go Launcher, SwiftKey X, notification toggle and Tasker to name a few. Also if another thread might solve my problem refer me there. I can't go to a custom ROM right now because I don't have a Peoples Wireless SBF file to reflash with if I have a problem. Thanks for any help.
Sent from my Milestone X using XDA
Same problem here bro on my sam galaxy 5...and i can understand how frustrating it is....i am also in similar condition...running 2.1eclair (well,yeah) rooted
Please let me knowif u get any permanent solution....though one way i have figured out is to freeing the memory by uninstalling apps...review your app list and uninstall the ones which are not really used....it gets tough sometimes but what to do
PS:since u have it rooted,make a backup of the app on sd card,in case u need it immediately any app and dont have time to download
Sent from my GT-I5503 using xda premium
It's the stock firmware. The Droid/Milestone X have never been very stable. You may want to look into flashing a custom Rom.
Well I uninstalled a bunch of apps and my phone seems a little faster. As for the custom ROMs is there any way for me to backup my current phone ROM so that I can reflash without an SBF? I plan on talking to my carrier and seeing if they will give me the SBF, if I get that I will definitely try some custom ROMs.
Another question, how do I tell which ROMs are safe as far as not changing my wireless radio settings to another carrier? Are there any good ICS ROMs for the DX?
Thanks for the help.
Sent from my Milestone X using XDA
You can do a Nandroid backup to save your settings, but you will need to SBF before you flash the backup. Just look up flashing Rom Milestone X on youtube.
If you check the section for your phone here you can find the Roms that are compatable with your phone.
my suggestion : try to change the rom. or try supercharger script
I also do experience this, but I think I'll search for a remedy of this here in the forum.
As far as a supercharger script, and I am running v6 supercharger. I found a "generic" Milestone X sbf, does this sound like it would work? Has anyone used it? Can I flash a SBF without changing my radio settings? I read something about being able to do that using Linux and sbf_flash. I'm trying to get to the point where I'll have a SBF safety net so I can try some custom ROMs. Thanks for the help.
Sent from my Milestone X using XDA
This phone was an insurance replacement from ATT, so alway a bit wary of these refurbished phones.
So for the longest time it has always been a bit glitchy, hanging, and unstable. I assumed it was a software problem, and something i had done wrong when flashing...but now I am wondering if maybe my phone is a lemon. Lately it has been rebooting randomly on its own,
I wanted to try flashing back to stock, just to start from scratch, and I did with Da G's stock rom . Then i just rooted it with Da G's root, and put on CWR. Then I flashed King Kang Rom. It's been still real buggy. Maybe I need to to stock ICS or JB then flash a ROM? OR maybe it's just this phone....either way not real happy with the stability i've been dealing with.
If youve tried multiple roms and stock roms and its still buggy then its probably the phone, I have got so many replacement phones that were duds
Are you doing a wipe between all those roms or just flashing one over the other? That could be a major problem that is easily fixed.
Yes, i do full wipes/factory reset in CWM every time.
I know i have seen some guys say you must flash like 3 times, so maybe i'm not flashing it enough times or something..? i also saw someone say don't touch your phone for 15 minutes after flashing. i have no idea if these tricks actually work or what. doesn't seem to be a definitive rule book on how to flash the right way
How are you restoring your apps? TB or letting Play reinstall them?
using TB. I usually do a just apps reinstall, then data
Was the TB backup from a different version of android, i.e. GB, ICS then installed on JB?
yes, i did create it on an ICS rom. you think that could be causing me problems?
Good possibility. I had the same issue. Moved from CM9 to CM10 and restored through TB. Lots of FC and reboots. Wiped and let Play reinstall everything, now its smooth.
great thought and worth a shot if that's what could be causing a problem. so did you lose all your data then with all apps? msgs, etc? sucks to start from complete scratch. i'll even miss call log
Lost data, but was able to d/l everything else. Messages and call logs were gone. It is worth it to have a working phone with out glitches. Let me know if it works.
Well a good test is to install a known solid ics problem free ROM like Padawan or Black ice? (exact name escapes me). If it works for u then over clock it to 1836 with setcpu and u will have a ROM VERY close to the JB rom smoothness but actually works.
If u still have problems then u may very well have a flaky phone.
(Oh yeah don't get to worried about stuff like wipe 3 times etc...old wifes tales. I haven't done that for over a year on 3 android phones. ). Also it is Safe to restore apps AND data with titaniumb (just not system data).
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2
+1 on the old wives tale. Seems more like a placebo effect. I only wipe once, and I've flashed roms on tons of phones.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
tried installing padawan...so far so good, have not overclocked yet....will report back
Some roms will format your system partition prior to flashing the rom while others do not.
Beyond the wipe of data, cache, dalvik and such, it is wise to go into " mounts and storage" and format the system partition while in CWM recovery.
This ensures that nothing remains on the device before the new rom image is pushed to the system partition.
I agree that wiping 3 times is a bit over the top, but wiping the entire image base before flashing a new one is almost always mandatory.....g
For future reference, you can back up call and sms logs and restore them without causing lags or fc. The logs are simple .xml files.
I have a Samsung G900T1 with rooted stock 6.0.1. This problem has been going on for 2 months or longer. My apps are set to auto-update without notifying me, over any connection. So I was unaware exactly when this problem started.
App updates barely crawl, then ending up stuck at 100% downloaded after taking an incredibly long time to complete (as long as several minutes). I know that new installs sometimes fail.
What I've done:
- Selectively disabled wifi, to force T-Mobile data for updates
- Cleaned every way I can do, used Trimmer app, stopped using more than one "kernal editor"
- Performed nandroid backup then factory reset and restored
Nothing seems to help.
Initially, I also erased all media files and unused apps. At this point I have 70 apps pending update. If I want to install a new app I first have to halt the update process to deprioritize those, then attempt install, which behaves as stated above.
I'm thinking the problem likely resulted from installing a couple of "App 2 SD" programs, attempting to open up primary storage. I'm guessing I tinkered too much. For a time I directed downloads to the SD card, but the performance degraded. I used the specified "backout" then uninstalled the app2sd apps. I had hoped the phone would return from crippled to slow, but now I have both.
Any detailed suggestions and all on-point questions appreciated.
Odin back to stock rom ... re root then reflash twrp then flash your custom rom.
Remember, if you are on 6.01 then you need to flash stock 6.01 you cannot flash a previous older rom
~~~oka1
Thank you for the suggestion. I am using stock rom (rooted + TWRP) and followed a longer path to fix the issue. Unfortunately, I now don't remember the exact steps, but I believe the source of those steps was not on XDA. I realize not much help, but I wanted a process less risky than factory reset or rom reinstall (risky when I do them, not necessarily in general). I assume not a big issue here at XDA since I just researched and found only one other direct question on the topic that was never stated as resolved. I would expect your method to work, and appreciate your help.