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Has anyone had a similar issue? Know a fix?
I got this phone, activated, ran the stock EC05 rom for a day or so, and decided to root and flash a custom rom. I used syndicate frozen 1.1 with the voodoo kernel and clockworkmod 2.xxx (don't recall now) for the flash. This was following the guide posted in on youtube for syndicate 1.1.0 found in said thread. This tutorial was basically one click root-> wipe the junk 3x-> flash rom-> flash kernel-> wipe junk again-> reboot. First thing I got loading up was a force lose on setup wizard. No options, just a black screen with a task bar. I fought with it, and found that if I removed setup wizard from the rom, it would boot, but no unlock screen, no search button, and no home button among other things. This was done twice to check the installation and re-downloaded in between for integrity.
Now I odin back to stock EC05 with the tutorial for restoring an almost bricked epic, and wipe everything by doing so. The phone boots normal and all is well stock and boring.
Next I decided to upgrade to new software. Flash Clockworkmod purple (newest version), Boot into recovery, wipe junk 3x (Data Cache Delvik) then Syndicate Frozen 1.2-> TwilightZone 1.1.1 (just so I had a different kernel for comparison)-> wipe junk 3x-> reboot. Still force closing on setup wizard.
Final straw: Blow it all away with odin back to stock EC05. All boots and works well. Install 1 click root, boot into recovery with stock rom and wipe data/cache/delvik and wipe the junk. Reboot and BAM, setup wizard force close. It seems as though something is getting trashed by clockworkmod on both versions I tried. I'm not new to debugging, but I've been using the Touch Pro 2 for the last year and a half. This thing is a different animal with the same 1 year learning curve. It's been 5 days. Still getting used to all this. I only followed the tutorials to be sure it was done correctly.
Can anyone report something similar or even a fix for this? I've searched my butt off, but the search terms used to find such a problem are going to throw you insane results no matter what. Coming out of the shadows is my only option.
I tried to keep it short. Sorry.
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Has anyone had a similar issue? Know a fix?
I got this phone, activated, ran the stock EC05 rom for a day or so, and decided to root and flash a custom rom. I used syndicate frozen 1.1 with the voodoo kernel and clockworkmod 2.xxx (don't recall now) for the flash. This was following the guide posted in on youtube for syndicate 1.1.0 found in said thread. This tutorial was basically one click root-> wipe the junk 3x-> flash rom-> flash kernel-> wipe junk again-> reboot. First thing I got loading up was a force lose on setup wizard. No options, just a black screen with a task bar. I fought with it, and found that if I removed setup wizard from the rom, it would boot, but no unlock screen, no search button, and no home button among other things. This was done twice to check the installation and re-downloaded in between for integrity.
Now I odin back to stock EC05 with the tutorial for restoring an almost bricked epic, and wipe everything by doing so. The phone boots normal and all is well stock and boring.
Next I decided to upgrade to new software. Flash Clockworkmod purple (newest version), Boot into recovery, wipe junk 3x (Data Cache Delvik) then Syndicate Frozen 1.2-> TwilightZone 1.1.1 (just so I had a different kernel for comparison)-> wipe junk 3x-> reboot. Still force closing on setup wizard.
Final straw: Blow it all away with odin back to stock EC05. All boots and works well. Install 1 click root, boot into recovery with stock rom and wipe data/cache/delvik and wipe the junk. Reboot and BAM, setup wizard force close. It seems as though something is getting trashed by clockworkmod on both versions I tried. I'm not new to debugging, but I've been using the Touch Pro 2 for the last year and a half. This thing is a different animal with the same 1 year learning curve. It's been 5 days. Still getting used to all this. I only followed the tutorials to be sure it was done correctly.
Can anyone report something similar or even a fix for this? I've searched my butt off, but the search terms used to find such a problem are going to throw you insane results no matter what. Coming out of the shadows is my only option.
I tried to keep it short. Sorry.
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Only wipe 3x before flashing, not after! Wiping after flashing just removes everything you did! Odin to stock ec05, one click root, wipe data/cache/dalvik 3x, flash srf 1.2, flash kernel immediately after, then turn on the phone.
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HAHAHA!!! And the dumbass award goes tooo......
I'm not going to edit though. Just incase someone else goes newb for a minute or 5 days. lol. Nice job on the quick answer though. Thanks
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HAHAHA!!! And the dumbass award goes tooo......
I'm not going to edit though. Just incase someone else goes newb for a minute or 5 days. lol. Nice job on the quick answer though. Thanks
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No problem. The exclamation points were only for emphasis. Don't worry about it, I was the same way just a couple of months ago, just ask around lol.
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Hey all. I have a new symptom that has occurred with my EVO 4G. If I reboot it, upon starting back up, it shows the white screen with HTC EVO4G; shortly after, about 30secs, it blinks and then sits at a blank white screen. I have to pull the battery several times before it decides to boot normally. The last thing that I did to it was flash the RedHot Forever theme (im running MikG 2.59) a week ago and all had been fine. My phone will heat up very hot around 115degrees while off the charger and me surfing, texting, and such. Is my CPU possibly about to bite the dust? I was thinking of taking it to Sprint today; they will most likely say it's bad and replace with another EVO 4G or an EVO3D or possibly the SSGII or I will have to pay the $100 deductible to get it fixed. What should I do?
I would flash it back to stock rom and see if it continues to happen. That will tell u if its hardware or software related
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My first thought is did you do a proper wipe before flashing your ROMS?
I do a full wipe before flashing any ROM. I usually use Virus's Superwipe as well as King's wipe script. I just did a full wipe and installing MikG again from scratch so I should be able to tell in a few if it's the theme or the phone.
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I do a full wipe before flashing any ROM. I usually use Virus's Superwipe as well as King's wipe script. I just did a full wipe and installing MikG again from scratch so I should be able to tell in a few if it's the theme or the phone.
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Running a fresh install and just did a reboot and all is booting up normally. It must've been the theme as it modified the boot animation when i flashed the theme. Now back to re-arranging my homescreen and flashing the theme again.
Ok guys I am starting this thread because I cannot find an answer after searching...
Basically what my problem is right now is that upon reboot of my phone, I get to the lockscreen page and there is no slider to unlock with. Just my wallpaper and notifications bar on top. This happened to me last randomly without me doing anything major (moving apps to sd card, installing new themes, etc.). I simply clicked the screen off after a text and then couldn't unlock the screen.
I am currently running the InfectedRom on my Evo with netarchytoastmod as a kernel I forget which version. I have wiped dalvik cache and regular cache and tried a reboot. Still same problem. I wiped both caches again and reflashed the rom and still nothing. The only thing I can think of to do next is to do a full data wipe, but I'm trying to avoid that cause thats always a hassle. Any ideas out there?
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not saying its virus' rom,but i had a few bugs trying to use that rom,after the second time flashing it,for some strange reason,my phone would'nt install it anymore,it kept giving error messages.It looks like a real good rom,so whoever got that rom installed and running,let me know your trick,lol.Other than that,i can't give you an answer for your question.Good luck.
Personally I think its the best rom i've used up till now. Looked awesome and never had a single problem with it :/ Thanks anyways!
Sorry for putting this here, but do not have enough posts to reply to the official thread over in development forum.
I did a clean install of TOB after rerooting, getting S-off and downgrading to froyo then upgrading it back to gingerbread while retaining S-off. Seems I had to get S-off for custom roms to work correctly when verizon sent me a new phone due to the 2am loop boot happening every night for a week even doing a full wipe/factory reset.(they know it is a known issue and sent me a new phone as mine wouldnt stop looping. I installed the last RUU available to take it back to stock and it still did it.
Walked in the bedroom this morning and the softkeys lights were on, figured I had gotten a notification or update or something. Watched it for a few, when it went to the TOB boot animation. would get loaded to home screen, then the loading animation would start again, happened continuously over a 30 minute time frame before I finally pulled the battery to get it to stop. tried to use the phone as it loaded and it started to do it again. Going to attempt to get into recovery and fix permissions, format data/cache, and see if that fixes it.
Anyone else having that problem?
Also are there any mods like the older stock+ that wont show the darned nag screen about there being an update available?
Thank you in advance for any advice/help.
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Also wanted to ask if the verizaon backup assistant is/can be fixed? it FC's whenever I try to load it. When I try to sync contacts on the VZW website I get a few texts with junk characters but no more contacts. Already did a fix permissions in CWM recovery, and through CWM itself. Thanks again for your help. Will update if anything Ive done fixes the problems.
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Sorry for putting this here, but do not have enough posts to reply to the official thread over in development forum.
I did a clean install of TOB after rerooting, getting S-off and downgrading to froyo then upgrading it back to gingerbread while retaining S-off. Seems I had to get S-off for custom roms to work correctly when verizon sent me a new phone due to the 2am loop boot happening every night for a week even doing a full wipe/factory reset.(they know it is a known issue and sent me a new phone as mine wouldnt stop looping. I installed the last RUU available to take it back to stock and it still did it.
Walked in the bedroom this morning and the softkeys lights were on, figured I had gotten a notification or update or something. Watched it for a few, when it went to the TOB boot animation. would get loaded to home screen, then the loading animation would start again, happened continuously over a 30 minute time frame before I finally pulled the battery to get it to stop. tried to use the phone as it loaded and it started to do it again. Going to attempt to get into recovery and fix permissions, format data/cache, and see if that fixes it.
Anyone else having that problem?
Also are there any mods like the older stock+ that wont show the darned nag screen about there being an update available?
Thank you in advance for any advice/help.
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The 2am reboots are not a phone issue, it is a known issue with the latest ota. I cant believe they would rather give you a new phone than to admit they sent out a messed up ota.
Try fixing permissions and wiping data as you said.
If 2.2 is installed you should not get a nag to update, as its based on the latest ota.
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Also wanted to ask if the verizaon backup assistant is/can be fixed? it FC's whenever I try to load it. When I try to sync contacts on the VZW website I get a few texts with junk characters but no more contacts. Already did a fix permissions in CWM recovery, and through CWM itself. Thanks again for your help. Will update if anything Ive done fixes the problems.
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Vzw backup was removed from the rom as most people dont use it. If you want it back, flash this http://dinc.does-it.net/APKs/VZW_Backup.zip, thru recovery.
Thank you cmlusco,
clearing cache and fixing permissions has fixed it, sorry for saying there was a problem. Verizon almost got back 3 phones (an eris that i was given, my old palm pre plus, and my incredible) at the same time with a certified letter having me cancel my contract 6 months early when the phone started rebooting back around the 4th of july. They replaced it last summer/fall when they rolled out gingerbread and my phone got half of it installed when it locked up and would not finish the update but was enough there to lock it from being fixed by ruu even.
I agree that it was not the phone, I told tech support I had it rooted for different skins and roms and to fix buggy software and they suddenly wanted to send out a new phone under warranty. I think they just wanted to get out a phone that was a little harder to root and get s-off rather than fix what was obviously a software bug issue. the new phone was supposed to be fully updated, but it wasnt installed, was still on the prior OTA and had a helluva time getting it to accept a custom recovery to begin with. Would goto the white HTC screen, then flash once or twice and go black with white bars down each side. took 3x to get it to accept it and ended up having to flash an older version first .92 i think (was 3 weeks ago now).
I will flash the backup software this time as my contacts were all edited on the website. Thank you again for the best rom Ive played with in a long time.
(forgot to add when I asked about the mods, I meant in a stock rooted rom that was similar to the old stock+ in use/appearance, but didnt get a nag screen, not that touch of blue did not have it. sorry for the confusion)
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Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm experiencing this issue too.
Getting overnight boot loops on Touch Of Blue 2.2.
I can temporarily fix it by booting to recovery, then wiping cache and dalvik cache.
Unfortunately, this is a daily ritual since updating from Stock+
I wiped our phones per rom install instructions ("Wipe dalvik-cache and format everything in the mounts and storage menu except emmc and sdcard before flashing."), so I'm not sure what's going on.
Seems to correlate with any 'pushed' updates from the Google Play store, but that's just my personal observation...
Any new developments (or permanent resolutions) on this issue since it was reported before?
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Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I'm experiencing this issue too.
Getting overnight boot loops on Touch Of Blue 2.2.
I can temporarily fix it by booting to recovery, then wiping cache and dalvik cache.
Unfortunately, this is a daily ritual since updating from Stock+
I wiped our phones per rom install instructions ("Wipe dalvik-cache and format everything in the mounts and storage menu except emmc and sdcard before flashing."), so I'm not sure what's going on.
Seems to correlate with any 'pushed' updates from the Google Play store, but that's just my personal observation...
Any new developments (or permanent resolutions) on this issue since it was reported before?
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No i looked into it, but couldnt figure out what was causing it. Tob is my daily driver and for some reason i have never gotten these reboots. It must have to do with a stock app that i have removed or something. Mabey gmail, i always remove that as i use maildroid. Wish i could be more help, i will install fresh and not remove anythimg and see if i get the reboots. Then it will be easier for me to trouble shoot.
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No i looked into it, but couldnt figure out what was causing it. Tob is my daily driver and for some reason i have never gotten these reboots. It must have to do with a stock app that i have removed or something. Mabey gmail, i always remove that as i use maildroid. Wish i could be more help, i will install fresh and not remove anythimg and see if i get the reboots. Then it will be easier for me to trouble shoot.
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Thanks for the reply... I wonder what's doing the damage - The dedicated Gmail isn't on my phone. My wife is running TOB as well with the same symptoms. She runs a lot more apps than I do and we were looking for the ext4 fix when I found TOB.
Maybe it's another app? Let me know if you want a list...
Planning to load your rooted stock this weekend and see how things go.
If, in the meantime, you need a guinea pig for any possible fixes, let me know - I don't mind installing stuff via recovery. I'm a little rusty on adb, but I could do that as well.
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Thanks for the reply! I saw your rooted stock build - Most likely will go with that.
I wonder what's doing the damage - I could pull Gmail off for the evening and see if mine is stable. My wife is running TOB as well with the same symptoms. We were looking for the ext4 fix when I found TOB.
If pulling Gmail doesn't work - I'll load your rooted stock and see how things go.
If you need a guinea pig for any possible fixes, let me know - I don't mind installing stuff via recovery. I'm a little rusty on adb, but I could do that as well.
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You can just flash back to tob 1.3. Same thing just not based on 4.08.605.15. Still has all the same features and look.
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You can just flash back to tob 1.3. Same thing just not based on 4.08.605.15. Still has all the same features and look.
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Can I flash that build directly over 2.2 or do I need to do a full wipe beforehand?
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Can I flash that build directly over 2.2 or do I need to do a full wipe beforehand?
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Just wipe dalvik-cache and the cache partition and flash over. I have done it before and had no issues. That being said, if stuff starts acting goofy you may need to wipe and flash from scratch.
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Just wipe dalvik-cache and the cache partition and flash over. I have done it before and had no issues. That being said, if stuff starts acting goofy you may need to wipe and flash from scratch.
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Loaded 1.3 per your instructions. Also flashed the stop OTA and stock unlock patches. All is well this morning. No symptoms of a reboot present.
Observations: I noticed when I updated my phone, upon reboot, it wanted to immediately update various software in Google Play.
Perhaps the whole lockup / reboot issue is directly related to how the market pulls down updates(?)... On 2.2, I was doing a morning ritual: I would install market app updates, boot to recovery and do the following: Wipe cache, then dalvik cache. (Last couple of days, I ran 'fix permissions' as well). The process, albeit slightly tedious, worked with varying success - yesterday, it took a few TOB boot screen boots before the phones were stable (wife and mine).
Today, all seems to be fine. After installing 1.3, I did all my updates last night - nothing new pulled down in the market for me.
My wife's phone had one pending update that I left to see if the phone was stable overnight - Still there this morning. So, no 2 am reboot.
Hope this helps with development in some way.
Thanks much for your help and input - I'll keep an eye out for a future build of TOB for problem child phones.
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Just wipe dalvik-cache and the cache partition and flash over. I have done it before and had no issues. That being said, if stuff starts acting goofy you may need to wipe and flash from scratch.
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Any pointers on upgrading the radio? Currently on 2.15.00.07.28
(Not in a rush - I see there's a few warnings on bricking your phone - unfounded or true?)
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Loaded 1.3 per your instructions. Also flashed the stop OTA and stock unlock patches. All is well this morning. No symptoms of a reboot present.
Observations: I noticed when I updated my phone, upon reboot, it wanted to immediately update various software in Google Play.
Perhaps the whole lockup / reboot issue is directly related to how the market pulls down updates(?)... On 2.2, I was doing a morning ritual: I would install market app updates, boot to recovery and do the following: Wipe cache, then dalvik cache. (Last couple of days, I ran 'fix permissions' as well). The process, albeit slightly tedious, worked with varying success - yesterday, it took a few TOB boot screen boots before the phones were stable (wife and mine).
Today, all seems to be fine. After installing 1.3, I did all my updates last night - nothing new pulled down in the market for me.
My wife's phone had one pending update that I left to see if the phone was stable overnight - Still there this morning. So, no 2 am reboot.
Hope this helps with development in some way.
Thanks much for your help and input - I'll keep an eye out for a future build of TOB for problem child phones.
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Any pointers on upgrading the radio? Currently on 2.15.00.07.28
(Not in a rush - I see there's a few warnings on bricking your phone - unfounded or true?)
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If your s-off you can flash just the radio thru hboot. If s-on you would have to do a whole ruu in order to upgrade it. A bad radio flash can brick a phone. That being said, i have done it many many times with no issues. Just make sure to verrify the md5 sum, and never interrupt or run out of juice while flashing.
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If your s-off you can flash just the radio thru hboot. If s-on you would have to do a whole ruu in order to upgrade it. A bad radio flash can brick a phone. That being said, i have done it many many times with no issues. Just make sure to verrify the md5 sum, and never interrupt or run out of juice while flashing.
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Results post: Ended up flashing TOB 1.3, radio 2.15.10.12.20, and CMW 5.0.2.0. Updating the radio via hboot ended up being very easy (as long as I verified md5 beforehand.) Our phones are stable overnight - no reboots. Signal sucks here at home, but seems to be slightly better - hopefully will be better around town. If not, there's plenty of other radio versions to try out.
hey, new user here, don't know if this has come up before but i did a search and haven't found anything that has the same particulars as i do.
recently my phone hasn't been responding to power button or home button wake up, intermittently. freezes up sometimes and some apps force close more than usual. then the other day, my phone died on me (full battery discharge) and when i finally got around to charging it, it charged fully but it wouldn't turn on past the Samsung boot logo, and gets real hot while doing so.
Also, the samsung boot logo appears before the AT&T splash screen tone starts.
im running stock Rooted 4.1.2 with the latest perseus kernel version.
any suggestions? i havent made a nandroid in a couple weeks, so my preferred route would be without a data wipe.
i can still access CWM recovery, btw.
well damn wheres the help?
I would download the stock rom and flash it again. If that doesnt work, custom rom time. I honestly cant see this problem getting fixed without a data wipe though good luck and keep me posted.
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With the non-response issues you describe, and the fact that you are seeing multiple force closes on the device....start with a wipe of the cache and dalvik cache in recovery.
It sounds as if the device is having cache file management issues, and trouble within the file structure.
While I dont think you have any hardware issues, it does sound like the software is suffering for one reason or another, and a base cleaning of the caches may help.
If no improvement is seen after cache cleaning, then we move to the data next.
I realize you want to keep your data intact, but if corruption has occured, you will have no choice but to factory restore the device and test again.
Try the cache cleaning first, then boot and test....
Beyond that...as the above poster states...a fresh install may be needed....g
Before a data wipe try reinstalling the kernel, and also try dirty flashing the Rom.
Not sure I would recommend a dirty flash to him. Plenty of times the result for users has been bad. Though as stated above yours, It does appear to be a file system error. He is probably right and I should have thought about wiping the dalvic cache first.
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i was afraid this would happen....
tried wiping both caches with no new results.
ive read that dirty flash has had mixed results. if i can at least get the OS booted so that i could backup what i need to, that would be a good thing.
im thinking its a kernel issue, since the phone gets real hot while stuck on the samsung screen. could i be right?
thanks guys:good:
i also tried reinstalling the kernel through cwm recovery, nothing new
FIXED
did a data/factory reset from recovery. it kept everything! thank god for cloud backups. Google is the JOINT!! i even kept my kernel and root, and at&t backed up my texts and calls....thanks everybody for the help, i really appreciate it!
its still kinna hot though...turned it off to let it cool down and see what happens when i start it back up....will keep posted if anything
Great. Know I didnt help too much but glad you got it worked out. :thumbup:
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did a data/factory reset from recovery.
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Great news ....
Data corruption is so very easy to get.
As we mix and match pieces of code, those issues do arise.
Sadly, the causes are often elusive.
But the plan "B" wipe generally does the trick, as is the case here.
Happy flashing....g