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[Q] SMS problem, message stuck on "sending"

About once a day while texting, a message gets stuck "sending" and I have to reboot the phone for the message to send. I am running stock DK28 with the ACS-dk28-signed ROM. I have seen some people having this issue on Quantum ROM too. Is anyone else having this issue and on which ROMs. Has anyone had it and found a fix? I have done the wipes and resinstalls so thinking it is some cache clearing problem. Will a different Mms.apk fix it?
Thanks.

I had that poblem with viperrom. since going with Nebula, I have not had that issue, however, I hav onl had it on my phone for four days
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I had Nebula for a minute this weekend but had trouble getting Sprint Nav back on and needed it Saturday morning for a job so had a massive wipefest and odin'd back to DK28 and put ACS back on so hope that cleared it up. Will see today. Still looking for a ROM with a Sprint and Samsung package included to save the hunt for all the apps.

It's a DK28 feature. I never found any pattern to what caused it, at worst I got it every 20-30 texts (or every 3-4 days for me).
Tried multiple roms and stock DK28, all do it eventually, it is just a matter of time. For some reason early Bonsai roms *seemed* to go longer before the problem appeared (weeks).
DI18 and back don't have the issue, so it is likely the modem... never tried DG27 long enough to see if it was affected.

J had that too and use update prl e everywhere I go it seems when change location its getting stock. Now it went away for now fingers cross.
dito33
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Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.

unique2me said:
Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.
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What ROM are you running? Anything special on your install? Wipes? Odin?
Update: After a major wipefest, 3X each and 1X Dalvik, Odin to DK28, then wipefest, then flash ACS-signed-DK28 I am going on day 3 without this issue....keeping fingers crossed. (oops hard to txt that way)

I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?

LunaticWolf said:
I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?
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I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?

kennyglass123 said:
I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?
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I have been clearing at level 2.
Ill switch to just level 1. Thanks

ACS Frozen 1.2 instability.

Hello xda community. I have a pretty large issue that affects my Epic. I recently had my Epic broken by blunt impact to the screen. So I sent it in and they sent a replacement in less than a day. I had Frozen 1.2 on my old Epic, and I had zero issues. But since I got my replacement, its been nothing but a hassle.
It doesnt get nearly as good battery life, it randomly reboots to the ACS logo, then endlessly cycles until the battery is pulled. Then when its turned back on, everything force closes, rendering the phone un-usable. The only remedy is to go to Clockwork and repair permissions. This will fix it for half the day.
Any advice?

bbecker42 said:
Hello xda community. I have a pretty large issue that affects my Epic. I recently had my Epic broken by blunt impact to the screen. So I sent it in and they sent a replacement in less than a day. I had Frozen 1.2 on my old Epic, and I had zero issues. But since I got my replacement, its been nothing but a hassle.
It doesnt get nearly as good battery life, it randomly reboots to the ACS logo, then endlessly cycles until the battery is pulled. Then when its turned back on, everything force closes, rendering the phone un-usable. The only remedy is to go to Clockwork and repair permissions. This will fix it for half the day.
Any advice?
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The force closing is probably due to not having Journaling on.
I believe in the SRF 1.2 OP, there is a JournalingOn.zip, flash that (no wipes) and that should stop the force closing.
If it still is unstable for you, I recommend just reflashing the ROM.
Hope this helps.

Follow Acer's directions. If for some reason you still have an issue, then I'd recommend redownloading the rom.
You may also want to try a different kernel.

nikon120 said:
Follow Acer's directions. If for some reason you still have an issue, then I'd recommend redownloading the rom.
You may also want to try a different kernel.
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Exactly right
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I had friend who had the same issue. He went back to SFR1.1.1
then installed ACS updater and flashed SFR 1.2. That fixed his problem. I did it that way too and have not had any issues. Calibrate battery after flashing.
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That sort of worked. It made it take longer for things to get hosed over again.So I tried resetting it to stock then flashing EG22, but each time I flash EG22, it doesnt do anything.The version stays at 2.2.1. What am I doing wrong?

What did you flash that is EG22?
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In order to better assist you, can you give us a step-by-step listing of everything you are doing? The files you are using with version #'s and your computer OS (with bit version).

I would recommend a full wipe of the phone, to remove any corrupted data
then do a clean install of SRF 1.2
then install the zip to turn on journaling
note: DO NOT use the reboot option until AFTER you have turned on journaling

What I did last night was returned it to factory stock EC05.
Im working with Windows 7 Home x64 on a Mac Pro, because for some reason neither Epic I've ever had will work with my custom built computer.
I flashed the EG22modem.bin with Odin 1.61. That didnt seem to do anything.
So later today, I am going to try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184134

The modem only changes the baseband..
regardless, imo it sounds like the problems you are having are due to restoring backups.. is that the case?

I installed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205024
and everything is hunky dory in the hood. Thanks for all the help

Phone ringing in silent mode or vibrate mode only

Ok first off I did search for this topic before posting. I'm running EH17 hurricane ROM with EH17 modem. I never had this issue until flashing the EH17 modem. So I will go back to the EC05 modem and see if that resolves the issue. I may try the EG22 modem as well. It may be the Rom but like I said I never hd any problems with sound when I initially installed this rom not until I flashed the modem. So it probably has to be the modem any suggestions or help on this would be appreciated thx.
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I returned your PM but see more info here. Sounds like the trip itself to Odin may have triggered some corruption in your ROM. Try a reflash of the ROM to see if that cures it. Also if it fixes it, find and flash the journal on zip. Even though Hurricane says journaling is enabled, wierd things have been happening (like losing 4G after a battery pull) to some people. So best to make sure full journaling is enabled.

This is what I did, I reflashed the rom after wiping data and wiping cache and dalvik cash several times. I then reinstalled the rom, and so far that seems to have worked. I'm going to be very careful with Odin in the future. What did you mean by journaling? Howe does that benefit me.
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Journaling is where the phone writes and checks twice. If it finds corrupton it will try to use the 2nd write. It is not foolproof but prevents errors and FCs in the event of an improper shutdown such as a battery pull, phone drop, running the battery all the way down or freeze. Hurricane has journaling enabled by default but am thinking it only journals data as I had system corruption after a battery pull. Running the re-enable journaing script turns it on in all partitions.
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Ok thx for the info bro.
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I see that you've found the answer to your problem, but I thought I'd just contribute that one other thing I know of causes this... uninstalling the DRM services.
Just make sure those are all intact as well. Freezing them with an app like Titanium PRO doesn't seem to affect anything, but uninstalling them or installing a ROM without them (I don't know what Dev would do that lol) would cause such issues. Maybe you got a bad download with corrupted DRM services, but like I said, I see you have your answer.

I always freeze DRM services and never have a problem with any media playing. His was a bad flash as usually is the cause.

kennyglass123 said:
I always freeze DRM services and never have a problem with any media playing. His was a bad flash as usually is the cause.
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Ya, I freeze DRM too and all works fine for me...even Netflix.

...That's what I said guys. What are you saying?

Sorry, read it before my coffee this morning...lol.
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Random freezes/ shutdowns?

So I picked this phone up yesterday. Everything seems great, after about an hr I rooted the phone and installed cwr.
Suddenly after about another hr I got a random freeze and then it shut down, at the time I was browsing the web. Boot it back up and within 4 hrs I got 3 more freezes /shutdowns.
At this point I went ahead and installed EB1.1 this morning hoping this would solve the problem.
Well it didn't, I've had 5 shutdowns in about a 10 hr span.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Unfortunately I wasn't stock long enough to see if it was caused by root and/or cwr.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
The freezes /shutdowns have happened doing different things and even while not even being used.
[Problem] So it freezes and shutsdown right after and I have to do a battery pull because it won't let me reboot without it.
It happens randomly and quite often.
It's not a rom problem because it was happening before I flashed it.
Really happy with this phone and I really don't want to go exchange. Asking this forum before I call T-Mobile because most likely they will have me do a factory reset, for them that solves everything!
Thanks.
Hercules, Hercules!!

Run fix permissions in cwm
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quest4fire said:
Run fix permissions in cwm
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I fixed permissions when I flashed the rom.
What difference would it make to do it again?
What do you think the problem is that this would help?
Either way I'm gonna fix permission and see how it goes.
Thanks!
Hercules, Hercules!!

I have had my phone for over a week and started having issues about 2 days later after root. My battery would not update and i was running updates from the market and the phone froze and shut down.
Rebooted and charged over night. I woke up around 4am and my phone was very hot. I got up this morning and flashed EB1.1 and so far no issues. It was odd and i cant quite find the root cause as to why it froze. no real issues before i rooted and no issues after i flashed EB.
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Wont hurt. Try wipe cache and data too
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Well wiped cache and dalvik, also fixed permissions.
No go, same problem.
I'm gonna wait to flash any new rom the comes out to see if it fixes anything. If not I'll just have to return.
I know with my G2X I was having random reboots and flashing certain roms would fix it so hoping for the same here.
Hercules, Hercules!!

Not sure if this will help, but when I got the phone on release it would constantly shut down and would not turn on. I had to keep holding Power button, much longer than normal. I ended up restoring the phone to factory default settings. No more random shut downs since.

Any chance did you restore any apps on titanium backup with old system data? That can cause alot of issues.
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Havoc1127 said:
Any chance did you restore any apps on titanium backup with old system data? That can cause alot of issues.
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Yeah, I know bout that one. No I didn't do that, I actually wiped my SD card as well just in case something on there was causing it and no go.
I was curious to see if root could of caused any issues, but I guess not because no one else is reporting same issue.
Hercules, Hercules!!

_eroz said:
Not sure if this will help, but when I got the phone on release it would constantly shut down and would not turn on. I had to keep holding Power button, much longer than normal. I ended up restoring the phone to factory default settings. No more random shut downs since.
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So were you still stock or had you rooted already?
So you're talking about a factory reset right?
Hercules, Hercules!!

htc2364 said:
So were you still stock or had you rooted already?
So you're talking about a factory reset right?
Hercules, Hercules!!
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I was still on stock. Yes a factory reset.
The phone would shut off while in apps or trying to surf the web. It would also randomly shut off while in my pant pocket and in my jacket pocket.

I get random reboots, stock and stock rooted, haven't flashed a rom yet. Reboots a few times a day usually, is kind of annoying, gonna flash a rom, see if that helps, otherwise I'll be hitting up tmobile too.

Sure don't have this problem

u can always odin back to stock now that we have it!! that fixes most probs!!!

_eroz said:
I was still on stock. Yes a factory reset.
The phone would shut off while in apps or trying to surf the web. It would also randomly shut off while in my pant pocket and in my jacket pocket.
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Yup, that's what mine is doing. I'm gonna try a reset today and see how it goes, thanks.
At least I know now that it would of done it stock.
Hercules, Hercules!!

vinterchaos said:
I get random reboots, stock and stock rooted, haven't flashed a rom yet. Reboots a few times a day usually, is kind of annoying, gonna flash a rom, see if that helps, otherwise I'll be hitting up tmobile too.
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I used to have reboots problem with my G2X and flashing a rom fixed it. The weird thing about it was that it was certain roms, not all of them.
Hercules, Hercules!!

movieaddict said:
u can always odin back to stock now that we have it!! that fixes most probs!!!
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I might just have to, thanks.
Hercules, Hercules!!

htc2364 said:
I might just have to, thanks.
Hercules, Hercules!!
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did you try that?

vinterchaos said:
did you try that?
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No, no yet. Haven't had time. But i'm still have the shutdowns.
Hercules, Hercules!!

[Q] Issue after ICS update - Phone freezing

After the ICS update on my non-rooted phone, the phone seems to be freezing
up and becoming unresponsive. After a while it looks like the radio "resets", all
the icons disappear in the top bar (signal, wifi, data) and it shows no service.
Then slowly one by one they all come back and I can use the phone again.
Sometimes I receive the "System is not responding" dialog box, but not always.
There is not one particular program it is doing this in, it can be something as
simple as pulling down the notification bar that will cause the freeze.
Any suggestions are appreciated, I couldn't find anyone else with the same issue.
Thanks.

Try:
Turn off phone
Take out SIM
Put SIM back
Turn on
I've had my phone act weird with respect to signal, wifi and data when this was the issue. Worth a shot, at the very least.

Digital_Buddha said:
Try:
Turn off phone
Take out SIM
Put SIM back
Turn on
I've had my phone act weird with respect to signal, wifi and data when this was the issue. Worth a shot, at the very least.
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Thank you for the response.
Tried this and had the system is unresponsive issue right on reboot. If I do a
factory reset, does it reset to the current firmware or what was originally on the
phone (probably a really stupid question). I wonder if some other program isn't
ICS compatible and is doing something in the background. Doesn't look like
anyone else is having this same issue.

jdscully said:
Thank you for the response.
Tried this and had the system is unresponsive issue right on reboot. If I do a
factory reset, does it reset to the current firmware or what was originally on the
phone (probably a really stupid question). I wonder if some other program isn't
ICS compatible and is doing something in the background. Doesn't look like
anyone else is having this same issue.
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If you do a factory reset and it was the standard Kies legit update from Tmo, it won't downgrade your phone - will just re-install a fresh copy of your ICS. Did you do a restore of apps from your last version (gb?) with data? That could cause problems I would think..

VoiD_Dweller said:
If you do a factory reset and it was the standard Kies legit update from Tmo, it won't downgrade your phone - will just re-install a fresh copy of your ICS. Did you do a restore of apps from your last version (gb?) with data? That could cause problems I would think..
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Yes I did the legit update on Kies, standard stock phone un-rooted.
Do I need to backup pictures before the reset, its been a while since
I had to do this.
At this point, I think its worth a try to wipe it clean and clear out all the
data.

jdscully said:
Yes I did the legit update on Kies, standard stock phone un-rooted.
Do I need to backup pictures before the reset, its been a while since
I had to do this.
At this point, I think its worth a try to wipe it clean and clear out all the
data.
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wipe the dalvik cache and cache then reboot

I did a factory reset and that solved the issue.
Thanks for all the assistance.

I've done a factory reset and wiped the cache more than once already and i still get a force close or unresponsive, enough that its really irritating me now. Any advice? And also, when texting, the typing responds very slow.
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itsdamage said:
I've done a factory reset and wiped the cache more than once already and i still get a force close or unresponsive, enough that its really irritating me now. Any advice? And also, when texting, the typing responds very slow.
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Are you letting it sit for like 10 minutes during first boot after factory reset then reboot again before setting up. Its likely that some scripts are running from the initial installation and you need to let it rot until its done..

I did exactly that, thanks for the advice. Hoping that may fix the problem. I wiped the cache and factory reset, then let the phone sit for a good while before going through the play store and re-installing everything.

This issue just resurfaced again. The last 2 days I am getting the freezing, radio reboot and android process not responding.
No one else having this issue?

I think I'm in the same boat. I was stock GB, and just did the mini OTA update (which was great). A few days later ICS became available via Kies from T-Mobile, and I "upgraded".
Since the upgrade my phone is laggy, screen is significantly less responsive and also my battery life is less than before.
I have NOT done a factory reset of my phone yes (plan on doing that today), but even with that I have read that performance does not improve.
Ideally, I would love to return back to the stock tmobile gb firmware. However, even after literally 2 hours of reading I can't find the "how-to" and files I need.
I would appreciate any assistance.

t989 chip lags
ive notice this happen on my tmobile galaxy s2. i think it has to do with the Qualcomm chip on tmobiles stock roms.
When i had sprint i bought my girlfriend a galaxy s2 on the sprint network which runs the samsung exynos chip. She never complained about any lag or freezing whatsoever. I then left sprint because of their garbage network and joined tmobile.
bought 2 galaxy s2s and i noticed the lag almost immediately. The phone has random lag spikes as well as freezing and force closes. It had it on stock gingerbread and it has it on stock ICS too.
My girlfriend complains about freezing all the time so i decided to root her phone too. Right now im testing DarkSides v7 rom and if its pretty good in performance i will flash her phone with it too. So far it has been pretty snappy and everything works.

jdscully said:
This issue just resurfaced again. The last 2 days I am getting the freezing, radio reboot and android process not responding.
No one else having this issue?
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Yes i have the exact same problem...and the clock goes off too...if i don't reboot then this will keep happening...if you go into settings then development settings and tick off only let 4 process run in the background it should stop...try it and let me know
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tonydetroit said:
I think I'm in the same boat. I was stock GB, and just did the mini OTA update (which was great). A few days later ICS became available via Kies from T-Mobile, and I "upgraded".
Since the upgrade my phone is laggy, screen is significantly less responsive and also my battery life is less than before.
I have NOT done a factory reset of my phone yes (plan on doing that today), but even with that I have read that performance does not improve.
Ideally, I would love to return back to the stock tmobile gb firmware. However, even after literally 2 hours of reading I can't find the "how-to" and files I need.
I would appreciate any assistance.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668502
follow that first post. i went through exactly the same problems and found this guide and am now happy again and running stock GB on my Galaxy S2.
Because you are on stock ics (im guessing you are..), you can just follow that guide and flash the UVLDE update.

Yes clock resets to standard standard time.. I already did a factory reset and worked done for a couple weeks. My wife has same phone and she is getting the freeze ups now.

jdscully said:
Yes clock resets to standard standard time.. I already did a factory reset and worked done for a couple weeks. My wife has same phone and she is getting the freeze ups now.
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Yeah really sux...it's random..I'm using a custom kernel and still having that problem....
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Yup here too. Almost reminds me of XP. Really ticking me off & it never happened on gingerbread. Rooted now & before I'm on rogers 4.0.4. wondering if there's going to be fix? Haven't seen if Google / rogers /at&t have commented?
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I'm getting the freezes as well even after doing a factory reset.
It sucks, I'm waiting for cyanogen to release a stable release and then I'm switching.

djtheraven said:
Yes i have the exact same problem...and the clock goes off too...if i don't reboot then this will keep happening...if you go into settings then development settings and tick off only let 4 process run in the background it should stop...try it and let me know
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. But it really shouldn't be necessary on a phone that's got more going for it than the stock nexus that 1st came out with ics.
There's something else going on.
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