Hey guys, I'm new to posting, but I've referenced the site alot. Anyways, I rooted using unrevoked 3. Ran fresh by flipz for a couple weeks, then evio 2, all is well until now. Decided to download cyan 6 stable, thought it was awesome, but I like variety. Switched to fresh, no backlighting on the 4 bottom UI "buttons." I've unrooted my phone, wiped the SD, factory reset, re rooted, downloaded a rooted "stock Rom" and I still can't get the lights go come on unless I'm running c6. I'm losing it so if anyone knows what or where I went wrong, please post ASAP! Thank you so much in advance! I hope its something simple since I've gotten so many hours in over one problem. Ps. I'm a night owl, its 5:45am. So I definitely miss the backlighting lol. Thanks again.
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I also just noticed the proximity sensor isn't working so when I make phone calls the screen stays lit. So frustrating. All bc of the settings in cyan. I'm so lost.
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Anything guys? I don't want to only have cyan for a for a Rom, and its heat don't get me wrong, like I said I like variety. Help out if you can.
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Did you make sure to do a full wipe before going from cm6 to fresh? Going between a sense and asop rom usually requires a wipe
Yes. I went through the entire unrooting process again last night, installed a rooted factory Rom. Latest ota. Even the stock Rom didn't function correctly after full wipe factory reset and deleting all contents on my SD. I'm running Cyan until I find a fix bc it is really annoying. By full wipe. I use clockwork latest. Wipe data, factory reset, and Cache. And then advanced wipe dalvic. Am I missing something?
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Thanks for the effort this far. I just can't believe nobody but me has this problem. Cyan 6 has the on screen power widget. By default. I tried leaving that the same and flashing to fresh, tried to go into Cyan settings, all the lights are set. To zero by default, so I put those at 255 and wiped and flashed fresh, and other Roms still no lights or proximity sensor??
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Try flashing again, but this time use amon ra instead of clockwork to wipe and flash. See if that helps.
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Ok. I can install recoveries from clockwork through amon?e
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No - there's the rub. But you can switch to amonra to wipe and flash just to resolve this issue, and then switch back to clockwork once its loaded. If you go this route, do a nand backup with amonra first, so you can restore in case something goes wrong with the initial flash.
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Going through the process right now. Thanks and I'll let you know the results. This has been a 3 day headache. Cyan is cool, but I like to switch to sense occasionally. C6 is nice, and i can't complain bc its hard work for free. I am at a loss. I just did all of the above you instructed, same result, so I wiped and flashed again just to see what would happen, still no bottom lights or proximity sensor!!! Losing my mind. Any other suggestions please lmk, I'm checking this every 5 minutes lol. Thanks for trying. I've googled this and found no similar issues either. Sucks.
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Going through the process right now. Thanks and I'll let you know the results. This has been a 3 day headache. Cyan is cool, but I like to switch to sense occasionally. C6 is nice, and i can't complain bc its hard work for free. I am at a loss. I just did all of the above you instructed, same result, so I wiped and flashed again just to see what would happen, still no bottom lights or proximity sensor!!! Losing my mind. Any other suggestions please lmk, I'm checking this every 5 minutes lol. Thanks for trying. I've googled this and found no similar issues either. Sucks.
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ok - as long as you're sure that you wiped all three in amonra and it still didn't work I have another option for you. I'm not a dev, and I'm not familiar with any recent builds of CM, but I am familiar with an app called Tasker. I've tested a few Tasker profiles that when set up, will monitor the proximity sensor and turn the screen off when it senses something (like your face) is close, and another profile that will turn the capacitive buttons on and off depending on the ambient light levels.
You would need both the tasker app and the locale execute plugin. Are you familiar with Tasker? You can get a 7 day free trial from their website here, and the locale execute plugin free from the market. If you want to give it a shot let me know, and let me know how familiar you are with setting up tasker profiles (so I know how detailed my instructions should be), and I'll spell it out for you.
This should work, unless your prox sensor and cap buttons are completely broken.
I have no experience with tasker profiles at all, so if you don't mind giving specific details I'm willing to try it out!
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dammit - things always seem much simpler in the middle of the night. The proximity profile isn't working right. It will turn off the screen fine, it just wont turn it back on - it would have to be turned on manually (if thats ok for you though let me know).
Try this app though - it simulates the way the proximity tool works, except instead of turning of the screen based on proximity sensor, it puts a black box over the entire screen whenever you're on a call (so you don't press anything by accident), and you long press a button to get rid of that black screen.
I'm testing the other profile now - the one for the capacative buttons. Now that I'm more awake I want to be sure I didn't miss anything there either.
edit - ok, I'm an idiot and I need to stop making claims when I'm tired. For the capacitive buttons, the profile will turn them on when it's dark, and turn them off when it's light, but I can't seem to get it to time out - so they'll always stay on when it's dark. I'm pretty sure I can set up a toggle widget to turn them on and off, though - let me know if you want to go that route.
Sorry about this - didn't mean to be so lame.
That's pretty much the way I have Cyan setup. Have to click the lock button to turn my screen off, and the lower 4 button lights only go off when I turn off the screen. So off, so yeah just send them when you can buddy. Thanks again.
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I cant imagine I'm going to have to restore this to factory and then return it, with all the other guys bouncing from rom to rom with no trouble. Somebody has to know what setting I shouldn't have changed? Please help guys. This Evo is my life. You guys no how it is
Sorry I haven't been able to get that workaround going for you, but there's a thread in themes and apps where somebody posted a gscript script to toggle the capacitive buttons on and off. It's much simpler than what I was going to set up, and unlike tasker, gscript is free.
for the proximity part, if that app didn't cut it for you, the tasker profile would have worked like this - and you only need tasker for this, not that locale execute app.
1. Hit new, and give the profile a name like proxoff and hit ok.
2. go into the state options and select proximity sensor. Hit done.
3.hit the plus at the bottom left, and go into the display options and select display timeout
4. Set it to the lowest setting which is seven seconds. Hit done, then hit done again to get back to the main screen.
4. Hit new again, and name this one timeoutrestore
5. Go into the event options and select display, then select display on and hit done
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4, but this time use your normal timeout setting. Done, done, done all the way out.
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alright here goes. I'll post what happens. thanks for helping me out buddy. Just get why nobody else had this happen lol.... suckkkksss
Still no luck brothers. I'm going to run cyan 6 until there's a specific fix for that. I'm good at following directions so I don't see where I went wrong. Frustrating, just wanted to be able to switch when I wanted. Could exchange for refurbished but I don't like that idea and ill prob make the same oops I made on this one. Boo
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that sucks man - I bet its going to end up being just some obscure setting or something simple too (hopefully, anyway). good luck.
Yeah but to get it serviced I have UN-root clear evidence of rooting lol blah
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
nobody...... anyone plz, it is cripling my evo
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
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get used to it if you intend to use sense, the screen you speak of is sort of like the htc sense/rosie intro. If you dont like it you can go vanilla and use another launcher, like adw froyo,launcherpro, or even the extra launcher thats included....
Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Or just do a factory reset.
also, you are experiencing some isolated problems which leads me to beleive the issue is software related rather than hardware.I have experienced NOT ONE of the issues you speak of. Make sure you update prl. I can vouch for that one. My data was 90% broken till i did. Also try and wipe data, that would prolly fix everything as well.....FYI, i cannot gurantee the problem lies with your hardware OR software. Thats just my diagnosis. Good luck
Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Heh...I did that once on my hero. I know the feeling.
some versions of spare parts come with a launcher. the problem is that when you press the home button now, it's trying to goof with /system, which is forcing the reboot. even though you may be rooted, you don't have rw privileges in /system while messing with android.
you may be able to get away with accessing /system and erasing your goofy installed spare parts app. you'll have to do that through adb shell, and the custom recovery. do a search for 'remove apps', you should find it easily enough. i think the thread was moved from dev to general, or q and a.
anything that will call a write to /system (i.e. a rooted app that needs access to it to work right) has the potential to cause the phone to reboot. when i installed adfree, it had the same effect. trying to install hosts (which write to /system/etc) caused a reboot. i had to install hosts through recovery with a push after remount.
hope that helps
Hmm I installed autokiller and it appears to work doesn't mess with anything that is
I really dunno a way of testing that its actually working though if you where looking for a way to manage memory
I was using a task killer but read up on stuff and turned it off just keeping it in case I need it for something that wont close and the phone is running great and battery life keeps getting better and better.
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autokiller
People you need to be careful with autokillers!
Make sure that you are not closing down sense items.
Put anything that says htc or sense on ignore.
If not you are shutting down parts of sense. Then sense has to reboot. Witch is why you see the white screen with the htc logo in the middle.
Ok to make a long story short, after I themed a whole bunch of themes I did not like the end result so i wanted to go back to where I was before. I loaded my backup and everything backed up but its like the backup was not clean or something because my phone has just been to unstable and acting stupid. It force closes some things and I have to pull the batt about once a day because I can't answere the phone. Also something about google services framework keeps popping up when I call someone. I am fed up. I am on srf 1.2 with the genocide 2.0 kernal.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Odin back and start over? Or is there anything better out there with gingerbread? I have not looked into anything current. Seems like there is a lot of stuff I have not seen before. Looks rather cofusing. Cwm5, selfkang cm7, acs rom manager. I am at. A loss for words. Can anyone help me.
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Ok to make a long story short, after I themed a whole bunch of themes I did not like the end result so i wanted to go back to where I was before. I loaded my backup and everything backed up but its like the backup was not clean or something because my phone has just been to unstable and acting stupid. It force closes some things and I have to pull the batt about once a day because I can't answere the phone. Also something about google services framework keeps popping up when I call someone. I am fed up. I am on srf 1.2 with the genocide 2.0 kernal.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Odin back and start over? Or is there anything better out there with gingerbread? I have not looked into anything current. Seems like there is a lot of stuff I have not seen before. Looks rather cofusing. Cwm5, selfkang cm7, acs rom manager. I am at. A loss for words. Can anyone help me.
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Do you know if you have journaling on? If no or not sure restore again from your nan and flash journaling on from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071723
Go to settings>applications>manage applications>all scroll down to Google Framework Services, click it and hit clear data.
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Do you know if you have journaling on? If no or not sure restore again from your nan and flash journaling on from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071723
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this. No really!
if youre looking to start over i can tell you i went from stock to acs ics v5.5 right before marcusant stopped dev and did his red revival rom. it was smooth, just a little buggy, but was eating my battery alive. I then switched to legendary 2.1 which was ok but in the end i opted for cleangb. its just simpler and i dont really need all that much. good luck
Ok so I cleared data and that solved the google.framework issues. But my gps button on the pulldown bar does not turn gps on. I also still can not send audio messages with the stock messanger.
Any thoughts? Should I be looking at gingerbread at this point or should I wait for a while?
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Ok so I cleared data and that solved the google.framework issues. But my gps button on the pulldown bar does not turn gps on. I also still can not send audio messages with the stock messanger.
Any thoughts? Should I be looking at gingerbread at this point or should I wait for a while?
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Toggle GPS a couple of times within Settings menu and then reboot and try the button.
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Toggled and reboooted, still did not help gps still does not work.
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Toggled and reboooted, still did not help gps still does not work.
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Does it work if you turn it on in settings? If not then Odin back to EC05, check GPS, if it works root and flash your ROM. Check it. If it works THEN do an advanced data restore from your nandroid and see if it still works. If it is broken then, try a factory data reset. If it is working again then reinstall apps from the market and set everything up again without restoring the bad data, or restore from an older nandroid where it was working.
The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.
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The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.
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You will probably have to Odin to EC05, check your button, if working root and flash ROM and check it. Should still work. Do not restore all your data. You will need to do a Titanium backup and pick and choose apps and data you must have.
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The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.
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You do realize that the GPS icon will only appear on the status bar when GPS is being used, right? Just because you have it turned on, whether with the pull-down menu or not, does not mean it will appear on the status bar. It may be on, but in standby waiting for an app that uses it. GPS kills battery, thus standby mode when not in use.
That said, while I don't know which ROM you've been using, most--if not all--generally "light up" the toggle buttons when something is turned on, even if it's in standby mode. Does the toggle button change state, i.e., light up, change color, or switch between "ON" and "OFF" when you toggle it?
I am on srf 1.2 and genocide 2 kernal. That makes sense, yes the button changes color and says on and off. I just thought that the icon used to appear when I pushed it. Maybe not.
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I am on srf 1.2 and genocide 2 kernal. That makes sense, yes the button changes color and says on and off. I just thought that the icon used to appear when I pushed it. Maybe not.
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I don't remember SRF 1.2 doing that, but it's been a few months since I was on SRF or Android 2.2. What's important to know is that as long as the icon switches state and GPS works when you need it, everything is functioning properly. IIRC, for the past few ROMs I've used the icon is only present when GPS is actively functioning, not when in standby mode. This is a good thing, it lets you know when it's burning up battery.
BTW, SRF 1.2 with Genocide 2 was my ROM of choice for Android 2.2! I recommend you upgrade to a 2.3 ROM these days though. To be honest, I've only used EpicMTD CM7, but it's awesome. The devs are knocking out issues very quickly, and we should be an officially supported CyanogenMod device soon.
Thanks for all your help. I guess I will not worry about it then. So I am kind of new to all the gingerbread roms and stuff. Is there or can you post some links that would be helpful for me to read? I have heard about acs rom manager and selfkang cm7 and cwm 5. I know nothing about any of this stuff. Ever since I rooted and romed with srf and genocide I never kept up to date with all this new stuff. Thanks
Hey all,
I experienced something a few mintues ago. I installed a new rom, Blissdroid. I 'discovered' that the backlight of the touch input (under the screen) was reacting dynamicly to sunlight. It went off in full sun. I couldn't find a setting to let it lighten up all the time.
I went back to Virtuous Unity, 2.35. It seems like the same thing is happening. I don't know if it's just normal (and I never discovered it before) or is there a setting I have to change (because I can't find one)?
Someone who can help me?
Thanks!
Settings>Display>Brightness and turn off automatic brightness and set it to a value manually see if that works for you.
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Settings>Display>Brightness and turn off automatic brightness and set it to a value manually see if that works for you.
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I tried that, didn't work.
For you it is always lighten up, even if you are outsise/inside where it is really bright? When I go outside, full sun, those 4 touch inputs will stop shine. It seems there is something wrong with my DHD? Or Am I mistaken? Someone who can confirm it is always lighten up?
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I tried that, didn't work.
For you it is always lighten up, even if you are outsise/inside where it is really bright? When I go outside, full sun, those 4 touch inputs will stop shine. It seems there is something wrong with my DHD? Or Am I mistaken? Someone who can confirm it is always lighten up?
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When inside those buttons will be on. When you go outside they will turn off. They don't have a setting to turn that off
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When inside those buttons will be on. When you go outside they will turn off. They don't have a setting to turn that off
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Oh, so it is just a normal feature of DHD? Weird that I just discovered that yesterday
rcmix 4.0 and roms that use rctweaks have settings for this. alternatively you can set it to your exact preference if you edit framework-res according to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034743&highlight=systemui+apk
the link is manly aimed at tweaking your autobrightness, but it has info on butons too
Thank you. I only feared a problem, caused by changing ROM, as I never saw that before. I Thought those inputs were always lighten up, in every dark/bright situation.
depends on rom authors preference i suppose
if you are using sense 3.5 runnymede port, you can also flash tweaks as addon. some very nice features in there
Thank you all. I'm not great in flashing ROMs, certainly nog all those tweaks. I tried Virtuous Affinity and Blissdroid, but in both I heard a pop sound after playing music, sound, ringtone,... It seemed like I was not alone.
So I went back to Virtuous Unity 2.35, which doesn't give me any problem, except for a random bootloop from time to time (for example after playing Angry birds and once just after sending a message) what I can fix by replacing the battery. This happens 1 time in 3 months or so.
I just don't want to brick my phone, so I don't experiment much. Maybe one day, when I've got a new phone, I can use my DHD to experiment more.
I would love it if my screen stayed off when I'm not using my phone. My screen is constantly lighting up. Many different things can trigger it, but once the screen is lit up, it stays lit for hours. This is very stressful. I have not modified my phone; it is stock. I have installed an Snes emulator and Worms Armageddon. That's it.
When I'm charging the phone, I'm usually asleep. When the phone completes recharging, the screen lights up and stays lit ALL FREAKING NIGHT. When I wake in the morning, I have to reach over and hit the button. When it's in my pocket and I receive a text, the screen lights up and STAYS LIT until I reach in and hit the button. Sometimes the phone is lit for an hour or more before I notice the heat in my pocket.
Also, this phone is huge and beautiful and I love it, but it's so wide in my pocket that the power button is constantly being pressed somehow. This also causes the screen to light up and stay lit inside my pocket. So far on average 80-90% of my battery is CONSTANTLY CONSUMED by this screen constantly turning on and staying on when I don't want it to. Do I have any options?
Is there a rom that addresses these issues?
1. Happened a couple times on my wife's stock rooted phone. A dalvik cache clear set it right whenever it happened.
2. Get a TPU case that has holes for buttons. This way buttons would be accessibly only by accessing it wantedly, and not by pockets.
3. Install greenify, and push all games to that. This way your emulator would be put to hibernate mode until needed again.
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1. Happened a couple times on my wife's stock rooted phone. A dalvik cache clear set it right whenever it happened.
2. Get a TPU case that has holes for buttons. This way buttons would be accessibly only by accessing it wantedly, and not by pockets.
3. Install greenify, and push all games to that. This way your emulator would be put to hibernate mode until needed again.
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i didnt know stock recovery had dalvik option. of course, i've only seen it once or twice.
i ditto the tpu case and greenify, if that matters to anyone...
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i didnt know stock recovery had dalvik option. of course, i've only seen it once or twice.
i ditto the tpu case and greenify, if that matters to anyone...
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I don't remember loading CWM on hers to the best of my knowledge. Its been over 6 months since I got her the phone.
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I don't remember loading CWM on hers to the best of my knowledge. Its been over 6 months since I got her the phone.
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Theres a davlik clear option in stock recovery and cache as well. I was surprised to see one as well. Saw odining back to stock
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Theres a davlik clear option in stock recovery and cache as well. I was surprised to see one as well. Saw odining back to stock
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That's interesting because I only had:
Reboot system now
Apply update from external
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Apply update from cache
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That's interesting because I only had:
Reboot system now
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Yep I'm crazy. I flashed back to stock and low and behold it wasn't there.
I don't feel much closer to a solution here. I would really like to know: Is this behaviour normal for the S3? Do your phones do this too? Or is it just mine? My Galaxy (original) never did this kind of thing. It would light up, then time out, and turn off the screen, like a phone should.
Just today, I open my work locker to check my S3. Screen's on again of course. Why is it on? Because I got a text 2 HOURS AGO. I just .... don't freaking understand this behaviour. It's AWFULY FRUSTRATING AND STRESSFUL.
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1. Happened a couple times on my wife's stock rooted phone. A dalvik cache clear set it right whenever it happened.
2. Get a TPU case that has holes for buttons. This way buttons would be accessibly only by accessing it wantedly, and not by pockets.
3. Install greenify, and push all games to that. This way your emulator would be put to hibernate mode until needed again.
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1. I looked it up. A "dalvik chache clear" requires that I install something called the "Clockwork Mod" - is that right?
2. I have never used a case for my phone and I NEVER will. I suppose I'll just have to put up with the button problem. I'll be more careful maybe.
3. How would pushing my games to greenify solve my problem? Doesn't android automatically hibernate all unused apps anyway? And do you think my Snes emulator is affecting my phone in the way I described? I don't think it would.
1. Yes
3. If an app requests to access resources like internet at regular intervals, android doesn't stop it. Greenify stops this from happening by disabling the app completely. Consider it on lines of disabled service.
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1. Yes
3. If an app requests to access resources like internet at regular intervals, android doesn't stop it. Greenify stops this from happening by disabling the app completely. Consider it on lines of disabled service.
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I +1 on greenify!
Its a great app!
But don't hibernate apps such as Facebook,Gmail,Twitter, anything with push notifications. Since greenify "freezes" them until you open them manually, you won't receive any notifications. But nonetheless its a great app and battery saver
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I +1 on greenify!
Its a great app!
But don't hibernate apps such as Facebook,Gmail,Twitter, anything with push notifications. Since greenify "freezes" them until you open them manually, you won't receive any notifications. But nonetheless its a great app and battery saver
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Greenify sounds great and I'll likely get it.
But none of this addresses the issue: My issue is not with the phone's efficiency. I know it would be fantastically efficient if it didn't permanently light up the screen every time I received a text. This wears out the screen too! THIS is the problem and it's a real big problem!
EDIT: "To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts" - Okay but why do I also have to wait 5 minutes to fix my typos? GRRRR!! Website design oversight, I think!
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Greenify sounds great and I'll likely get it.
But none of this addresses the issue: My issue is not with the phone's efficiency. I know it would be fantastically efficient if it didn't permanently light up the screen every time I received a text. This wears out the screen too! THIS is the problem and it's a real big problem!
EDIT: "To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts" - Okay but why do I also have to wait 5 minutes to fix my typos? GRRRR!! Website design oversight, I think!
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You can set your screen time out setting you know...
You might have it set not to time out ever.
it is under display settings
crixley said:
You can set your screen time out setting you know...
You might have it set not to time out ever.
it is under display settings
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Yeah I checked that. it's always been set to 30 seconds. Thanks though.
To me it sounds like you dont have anything on your phone so why not do a factory reset? You can use SMS Backup to keep all your texts, and everything else is synced. If you dont want to factory reset, then I don't know what.
Id just root it and put a custom recovery such as TWRP and clear both caches.
Ive searched everywhere and can't seem to find anyone with a solution. Ive found a post with the same problem but no solution.
So yesterday my s3 started having problems waking up. Meaning when I lock it usually you bring up the lock screen by pressing the power button or home button. Problem is when I press either one, screen doesnt come on. The buttons do. If I tap the screen I can hear the ripple effect but the screen doesnt light up. I have to keep locking and unlocking till it finally works. Averege of about 6 tries. When I get a call most of the time the screen doesnt come on either. I can still answer since I know where the slider is. When I do turn it on everything works perfect. No flickering or any other issues. When it boots it works perfect...never fails. Just when I lock it.
I tried restoring already, thinking its a software issue...still does it. What piece of hardware could cause this? I'm stumped. Please any advice would be great.
I'm not rooted and running 4.1.1 oem rogers software.
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felcom said:
Ive searched everywhere and can't seem to find anyone with a solution. Ive found a post with the same problem but no solution.
So yesterday my s3 started having problems waking up. Meaning when I lock it usually you bring up the lock screen by pressing the power button or home button. Problem is when I press either one, screen doesnt come on. The buttons do. If I tap the screen I can hear the ripple effect but the screen doesnt light up. I have to keep locking and unlocking till it finally works. Averege of about 6 tries. When I get a call most of the time the screen doesnt come on either. I can still answer since I know where the slider is. When I do turn it on everything works perfect. No flickering or any other issues. When it boots it works perfect...never fails. Just when I lock it.
I tried restoring already, thinking its a software issue...still does it. What piece of hardware could cause this? I'm stumped. Please any advice would be great.
I'm not rooted and running 4.1.1 oem rogers software.
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My guess is that you have something draining all your RAM or being hard on your CPU. When you restored, did you factory reset?
You might have to backup your stuff, factory reset. Test it, if it still does it, bring it up with Rogers for a replacement. If it doesn't, reinstall your stuff until you find the culprit.
You could troubleshoot it also by uninstalling the latest apps you installed.
BWolf56 said:
My guess is that you have something draining all your RAM or being hard on your CPU. When you restored, did you factory reset?
You might have to backup your stuff, factory reset. Test it, if it still does it, bring it up with Rogers for a replacement. If it doesn't, reinstall your stuff until you find the culprit.
You could troubleshoot it also by uninstalling the latest apps you installed.
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Like I said...Already did a factory reset. Meaning All apps were gone. Started fresh. Even without going through the first setup (setting up google account etc etc) if I lock the phone its hard to wakeup.
Phone is out of warranty so no go there....
I'm just not understanding what is causing it. I know the screen is fine...buttons are fine...everything points at a software problem. I found a post from a while back where someone was having the same problem....no solution was posted though. I even took the phone apart last night thinking a bad connection or something...disconnected the screen and reconnected it...didn't do anything.
If the screen was going bad wouldn't I have issues all the time? Once I wakeup the phone it works perfect...no flickering or anything. When it boots (which I've done like 30 times between today and yesterday) the screen has come on every single time perfectly fine. Everything tells me it's software related...but after doing a factory reset and running original firmware it seems as though it must be a hardware issue...but which component.
I know the phone wakes up when I press the buttons...I can see the menu and back buttons light up...and if I tap the screen the ripple sound is there...just the screen doesn't wake up....till I try a few more times....very frustrating.
Thanks Again for trying...if anyone has any ideas....greatly appreciated. I'll try and find original Rogers firmware and install with odin...see if that works....
felcom said:
Like I said...Already did a factory reset. Meaning All apps were gone. Started fresh. Even without going through the first setup (setting up google account etc etc) if I lock the phone its hard to wakeup.
Phone is out of warranty so no go there....
I'm just not understanding what is causing it. I know the screen is fine...buttons are fine...everything points at a software problem. I found a post from a while back where someone was having the same problem....no solution was posted though. I even took the phone apart last night thinking a bad connection or something...disconnected the screen and reconnected it...didn't do anything.
If the screen was going bad wouldn't I have issues all the time? Once I wakeup the phone it works perfect...no flickering or anything. When it boots (which I've done like 30 times between today and yesterday) the screen has come on every single time perfectly fine. Everything tells me it's software related...but after doing a factory reset and running original firmware it seems as though it must be a hardware issue...but which component.
I know the phone wakes up when I press the buttons...I can see the menu and back buttons light up...and if I tap the screen the ripple sound is there...just the screen doesn't wake up....till I try a few more times....very frustrating.
Thanks Again for trying...if anyone has any ideas....greatly appreciated. I'll try and find original Rogers firmware and install with odin...see if that works....
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Sounds indeed like software issue. I'm not so sure what would cause it on stock rogers though.
Either way, you can find the stock ROM on sammobile.com or on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1822308
You'll need Odin to flash it. (It doesn't trigger the flash counter)
felcom said:
Phone is out of warranty so no go there....
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Did you buy your phone with a credit card? Some cc's have warranty built in. Mine doubles what the manufacturer offers.
Thanks for the link. I will try it tonight and post the results. Really hoping it works.
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I downloaded the newest firmware. 4.1.2 official rogers. Problem persists. Must be a hardware issue. Thing is what could cause this? Is it the screen...is it the gpu? I imagine if its gpu the phone is only good for parts as I imagine its part of the motherboard. Oh well...might be getting the s4 sooner then planned.
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felcom said:
I downloaded the newest firmware. 4.1.2 official rogers. Problem persists. Must be a hardware issue. Thing is what could cause this? Is it the screen...is it the gpu? I imagine if its gpu the phone is only good for parts as I imagine its part of the motherboard. Oh well...might be getting the s4 sooner then planned.
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If you're down for a little test, you could try with a custom ROM.
Use the link I gave you and flash pre-rooted Rogers' ROM. From there, install TWRP (or cwm) using goomanager (from the Play Store) and flash a custom ROM as per their instructions (Don't forget the Gapps).
Before anything though, make a backup
Never know, might save you some time on that S4.
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If you're down for a little test, you could try with a custom ROM.
Use the link I gave you and flash pre-rooted Rogers' ROM. From there, install TWRP (or cwm) using goomanager (from the Play Store) and flash a custom ROM as per their instructions (Don't forget the Gapps).
Before anything though, make a backup
Never know, might save you some time on that S4.
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Thanks. I might try it. Dont think I have too much to lose at this point. I always try and keep my phones nice so that when I get a new one I can sell the old one for good money to help offset the cost. This really messes with that system as the phone isn't worth much now...just bought an extended battery too...was planning to keep it for at least another 6 months.
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So just a quick update. For no apparent reason the phone started working fine again. It now turns on and off just fine. I'm not going to mess around with it anymore. That's really bizzare. I'll give it a couple days and will report back if it continuous to work fine or if the problem comes back. Thanks for the input.
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